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THE  ROAD  TO  IMMORTALITY. 


BY  BROTHER  PAUL. 


"We  live  in  deeds,  not  years;  in  thoughts,  not  breaths; 
•In  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a  dial. 
We  should  count  time  by  heart-throbs.     He  most  lives 
Who  thinks  most — feels  the  noblest — acts  the  best. 
Life's  but  a  means  unto  an  end — that  end, 
Beginning,  mean  and  end  to  all  things — God." 

— Festus. 


ESOTERIC   PUBLISHING   COMPANY, 
APPLEGATE,  CALIFORNIA. 

1898. 


COPYRIGHT 
BY 

THE  AUTHOR. 
A.  D.  1898. 


PREFACE. 


The  thoughts  herein  expressed  are  sent  forth  with  an  earnest 
prayer  that  they  may  be  acceptable,  and  beneficial  to  the  dear 
ones  who  crave  that  spiritual  bread  which  alone  can  satisfy  the 
hunger  of  the  soul.  The  life  of  consecration  and  trust  in  our 
heavenly  Father  has  been  lived  by  thy  author  for  a  number  of 
years.  These  years  have  been  spent  with  a  company  of  people, 
who,  apart  from  the  world,  were  all  living  the  same  consecrated 
life.  Therefore  he  feels  in  a  position  to  speak  from  absolute 
knowledge,  and  that  he  does  not  overstate  facts  in  saying,  that 
all  who  dedicate  their  lives  to  God,  and  live  absolutely  up  to 
the  requirements  of  the  covenant  given  to  Moses  on  Sinai, will 
have  all  their  wants  supplied,  will  never  suffer  sickness  or  sor- 
row, and  will  eventually  overcome  the  ruler  of  death  and  the 
grave.  This  statement  does  not  apply  to  those  who  believe 
themselves  to  be  living  a  life  of  consecration;  but  only  to  those 
who  live  that  life  in  deed  and  in  truth.  Man  cannot  accom- 
plish this  in  his  own  strength,  but,  as  grand  old  Isaiah  truly 
says,  "Trust  ye  in  the  Lord  forever;  for  in  the  Lord  JEHO- 
VAH is  everlasting  strength.''  Isaiah  xxvi.  4. 

The  life  of  chastity,  as  set  forth  in  the  following  pages,  must 
be  adhered  to,  as  no  one  can  consecrate  his  life  to  God,  unless 
he  is  living  a  life  of  absolute  holiness  and  purity.  This  life 
of  chastity  is  the  same  as  was  lived  and  taught  by  our  Lord 
Jesus  the  Christ,  nineteen  hundred  years  ago.  It  is  therefore 
hoped  that  all  zealous  Christian  men  and  women  who  desire 
to  live  the  Christ  life,  will  give  these  methods  their  earnest 
and  prayerful  consideration. 

All  men  desire  and  look  forward  to  a  time  when  they  will 
enjoy  an  immortal  existence,  free  from  disease,  sorrow,  and 

831910 


VI  PREFACE. 

death.  They  look  for  this  celestial  state  to  obtain  after  the 
physical  has  been  laid  in  the  grave.  This  belief  is  a  very  se- 
rious mistake  and  does  much  to  retard  the  progress  of  the  soul. 
The  truth  is,  that  immortality  has  never  been,  neither  will  it 
ever  be  gained,  unless  the  consciousness  of  the  soul  has  been 
awakened  while  dwelling  in  a  physical  body.  It  was  for  this 
purpose  that  God  gave  man  a  material  body.  The  gatewav  of 
the  grave  opens  into  a  realm  of  unconsciousness  or  semi-con- 
sciousness, not  into  a  realm  of  spiritual,  everlasting  conscious- 
ness; which  is  the  only  consciousness  that  makes  man  immor- 
tal. 

An  unceasing  consciousness  can  only  be  obtained  while  the 
spiritual  ego  inhabits  an  earthly  tabernacle;  and  this  conscious 
ness  must  be  unfolded  through  the  application  of  methods 
in  harmony  with  spiritual  law.  These  laws  cannot  be  lived  up 
to  or  understood  until  the  soul  has,  through  the  process  of  evo- 
lution, gained  a  high  degree  of  unfoldment.  When  the  neces- 
sary degree  of  unfoldment  has  been  gained  by  the  soul,  it 
reaches  upward  to  the  Father  to  know  his  mind  and  will. 
This  reaching  upward  of  the  soul  is  the  silent  aspiration,  or 
prayer,  that  is  always  answered.  God  answers  all  such  pray- 
ers in  these  words,  "If  ye  will  obey  my  voice  indeed,  and 
keep  my  covenant,  then  ye  shall  be  a  peculiar  treasure  unto 
me  above  all  people;  for  all  the  earth  is  mine."  Ex.  xix.  5. 
Therefore,  the  reason  for  the  necessity  of  dedicating  the  life 
to  God  is,  that  we  may  have  him  for  our  protector.  If  man 
endeavors  to  gain  immortality  through  his  own  efforts  he  will 
find  only  failure. 

The  atheist,  as  well  as  all  other  classes  who  reject  God  and 
worship  a  creation  of  their  own  imagination,  cannot  hope  for 
an  immortal  existence;  he  can  expect  nothing  more  in  this 
world  than  an  intellectual,  serni-conscious  existence,  and  in  the 
world  to  come  a  consciousness  measured  by  the  attention  paid 
to  spiritual  things  while  on  earth.  One  thing  is  certain:  The 
soul  of  man  does  not  develop  after  it  leaves  the  body,  unless 


PREFACE.  VII 

it  has  reached  a  state  of  unfoldment  that  permits  it  to  live 
independent  of  material  conditions. 

The  purpose  of  God  in  creating  man,  was  to  produce  a  be- 
ing in  his  image  and  likeness;  they  were  to  have  dominion  over 
all  the  earth,  to  command  and  be  obeyed.  Adam,  the  father  of 
the  present  race,  had  unfolded  the  image  of  the  Father,  but 
not  the  likeness,  namely,  the  power  to  use  the  creative  word; 
therefore  he  was  not  a  perfect  representative  of  the  word,  or 
thought  of  God,  which  will  not  be  fully  ultimated  until  the  like- 
ness is  attained.  Adam,  not  having  unfolded  the  nature  of 
the  perfect  man,  could  not  eat  of  the  fruit  of  the  tree  of  life, 
and  live.  But,  as  it  was  necessary  for  the  likeness  to  be  attained, 
he  was  permitted  to  eat  of  the  fruit,  in  order  that  through 
experience  man  might  unfold  and  gain  knowledge  and  under- 
standing. One  short  earth  life  is  inadequate  to  produce  such 
a  perfect  being:  if  it  were,  gods  would  walk  among  men.  There 
fore  the  necessity  of  re-incarnation,  which  permits  the  spirit- 
ual ego,  the  real  man,  to  return  again  and  again  to  earth,  times 
without  number,  until  he  gains  knowledge  sufficient  to  enable 
him  to  understand  the  purpose  and  will  of  God. 

The  human  family  have  become  so  merged  into  the  material 
elements,  and  their  senses  so  benumbed  by  passion  and  sin, 
that  they  cannot  comprehend  spiritual  things.  Their  physical 
organism  has  become  so  gross  that  the  interior  man  is  unable 
to  manifest  through  it.  They  have  lost  sight  of  the  powers  of 
spirit,  which  are  latent  within.  They  cannot  remember  the  past 
because  they  continually  deny  it,  and  they  will  not  obtain  a  re- 
membrance of  it  until  a  soul  consciousness  has  been  developed. 
However,  knowledge  has  been  stored  up  by  the  soul  and  can  be 
used  by  it  whenever  the  requisite  conditions  are  gained  and  main- 
tained. It  is  only  the  lower  self  that  prevents  the  spirit  of  man 
from  expressing  its  true  nature:  when  this  has  been  made  the 
server  instead  of  the  ruler,  man  is  no  longer  a  mortal,  but  an 
immortal;  he  has  gained  the  dominion  over  all  earthly  things, 
and  is  a  glorified  son  of  God,  a  king,  with  power  to  rule  the  earth. 


VIII  PREFACE. 

We  earnestly  hope  that  our  readers  will  give  these  truths 
their  earnest  consideration.  We  hope  that  they  will  not  be- 
come discouraged  if  failure  marks  their  early  efforts.  They 
should  bear  in  mind  that,  if  they  would  gain  immortality,  they 
must  expect  to  devote  years  of  patient  labor  to  the  accom- 
plishment of  their  purpose;  no  one  can  eradicate  the  evils  of 
his  nature  until  it  has  been  entirely  reformed,  or  re-created. 
The  writer  is  personally  acquainted  with  those  who  labored  ten 
years  before  they  overcame  the  powers  of  the  serpent.  Those 
who  accomplish  this  in  seven  years  are  fortunate  indeed.  Re- 
member that,  if  you  enlist  in  this  great  fight  that  is  to  emanci- 
pate you  from  the  evils  of  flesh  and  give  you  the  dominion 
over  the  powers  of  death  and  the  grave,  you  must  be  prepared 
to  overcome  all  obstacles.  Refuse  to  be  discouraged,  but  press 
ever  onward,  feeling  that  you  have  been  created  a  son  of  God, 
therefore  are  able  to  conquer  all  the  evil  influences,  seen  and 
unseen,  that  would  bar  your  progress  and  hold  you  in  slavery 
to  earthly  environment  and  conditions. 

To  be  free,  man  must  feel,  nay,  desire  with  all  his  heart,  that 
his  sins  go  before  him  to  judgment.  This  brings  much  sorrow 
and  many  trials,  but  trials  are  necessary  in  order  that  man  may 
learn  that  if  he  would  be  master  he  must  "  tread  the  wine  press 
alone."  He  must  walk  the  narrow  way  unaided  by  friend  or 
companion,  depending  upon  no  earthly  power,  but  upon  the 
God  of  the  universe,  to  help,  sustain,  and  lead. 

May  the  light  of  God's  presence  be  ever  a  guide  to  all  those 
who  strive  after  the  priceless  pearl,  inmiortality.  It  is  the  cen- 
tral jewel  in  the  kingly  crown  which  all  will  possess  after  they 
have  been  nailed  to  the  cross,  and  are  clothed  in  the  spotless 
garments  of  eternal  life.  May  the  peace  of  God  rest  upon 
his  children:  and  may  his  love  abide  with  them  forever. 

THE  AUTHOR. 


CHAPTER  I.          .     ,......;-.  :.    :  /. 

WHAT  IMMORTALITY   IMPLIES. 

Sages  of  every  age  have  sought  the  Elixir  Vitct\  Some  claimed 
to  have  found  it,  while  others,  after  years  of  study  and  research, 
have  declared  that  "man  was  born  to  die,"  that  eternal  youth, 
or  an  immortal  existence  in  the  physical  body,  is  but  a  delu- 
sion, a  chimera,  a  creation  of  a  disordered  brain.  Whether 
these  wise  ones  spoke  the  truth  or  were  themselves  deluded, 
we  will  leave  the  reader  to  decide.  If  the  thoughts  herein  ex- 
pressed prove  to  be  of  benefit  to  one  soul  seeking  the  light,  the 
object  of  the  writer  shall  have  been  accomplished.  The  soul's 
prayer,  "Oh  Father,  let  thy  mind  and  will  control  the  thought," 
shall  have  been  answered.  If  nothing  else  be  attained,  at  least 
the  writer  will  have  the  consciousness  that  he  has  acted  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  will  of  the  Father,  and  in  so  doing  has  les- 
sened the  distance  between  himself  and  the  goal  of  his  desires. 
If  the  reader  is  a  seeker  after  truth,  then  he  has  but  to  "prove 
all  things,  and  hold  fast  that  which  is  good." 

Jesus,  the  greatest  of  all  teachers  and  expounders  of  divine 
truth,  nearly  nineteen  hundred  years  ago  gave  utterance  to  these 
words:  "But  I  tell  you  of  a  truth,  there  be  some  standing  here, 
which  shall  not  taste  of  death,  till  they  see  the  kingdom  of  God." 
St.  Luke  IX.  27.  The  kingdom  Jesus  spoke  of  has  not  yet  come; 
therefore  the  natural  conclusion  is,  that  there  is  at  least  one  man 
alive  on  earth  who  has  retained  the  physical  body  for  nineteen 
hundred  years.  As  God's  laws  are  unchangeable,  it  must  follow 
that  all  who  obey  them  will  obtain  similar  results.  The  divine 
laws  and  methods  that  will  produce  such  marvelous  results,  we 
will  endeavor  to  explain.  We  assure  our  readers  that  all  who 
apply  these  methods  faithfully  and  earnestly,  with  a  determina- 


10  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

tion  that  knows  no  such  thing  as  failure,  may  drink  from  the 
fountains  of  eternal  youth,  may  draw  wisdom,  knowledge,  and 
understanding  d.irectfrom  the  fountainhead  of  (iod's  own  mind. 
The  individual  who  ?an  draw  sustenance  from  the  Infinite  Life, 
will -bo  .1*1  ways  able  to  rejuvenate  his  body  and  perpetuate  his  ex- 
istence. He  alone  of  all  the  sons  of  men  has  dominion  over  death 
and  the  grave.  '„  Before  we  speak  of  the  laws  whereby  an  im- 
mortal existence  is  made  possible,  we  will  try  to  make  plain  the 
true  understanding  of  the  term  "immortality." 

When  the  term  "immortal  life"  is  used,  we  do  not  wish  the 
reader  to  understand  that  the  physical  body,  as  we  see  it  mani- 
fest to  the  external  sight,  is  to  be  retained  throughout  the  end- 
less ages  of  eternity.  Undoubtedly  there  will  come  a  time, 
when,  of  his  own  free  will  and  desire,  the  immortal  man,  the 
acknowledged  son  of  God,  will  willingly  lay  aside  his  earthly 
house  of  clay,  in  order  to  pass  on  to  higher  spheres  of  service. 
The  immortal  man  lives  wholly  from  the  realm  of  mind,  and 
when  his  labors  here  below  are  finished  the  physical  body  will 
be  no  longer  needed.  It  will  then  become  an  incumbrance,  im- 
peding the  free  action  of  the  spirit.  Such  an  one  will,  however, 
retain  his  body  until  his  use  as  a  worker  on  earth  is  ultima  ted, 
be  it  one  hundred,  or  one  thousand  years  hence. 

Immortality,  in  its  truest  sense,  means  a  state  of  spiritual 
sensibility  in  which  the  individual  possesses  an  everlasting,  un- 
ceasing, consciousness;  a  mind  consciously  active,  that  never 
ceases  to  form  thought  whether  he  is  asleep  or  awake.  Whether 
he  inhabits  an  earthly  tabernacle,  or  has  been  freed  from  the 
bondage  of  flesh  and  clothed  in  celestial  garments,  he  who  has 
attained  immortality  is  a  dweller  in  the  spiritual  realms  with 
the  emancipated  sons  and  daughters  of  earth,  who  have  passed 
on  to  those  higher  spheres;  there  is  his  real  home. 

Immortality  implies  that  all  the  evils  incident  to  earth  life, 
and  also  the  old  accuser  that  has  deceived  the  human  family 
from  the  beginning,  have  been  overcome.  It  means  that  the  sins 
of  the  past,  the  sins  of  omission  and  commission,  have  "gone  be- 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  11 

fore  him  to  judgment,''  and  that  the  individual  stands  justified 
by  him  who  searcheth  and  knoweth  the  hearts  of  all  men.  It 
means  that,  although  dwelling  in  a  physical  form,  he,  the  real 
man,  is  clothed  in  the  spotless  garments  of  spirit:  he  has  been 
washed  and  made  clean,  he  has  been  born  again,  not  of  flesh, 
which  is  corruptible,  but  of  spirit  which  is  incorruptible,  which 
passes  not  away  but  is  eternal,  being  of  God,  our  Creator  and 
Preserver.  Immortality  means  that  man  is  filled  with  the  in- 
flowing currents  of  divine  life,  with  the  eternal  breath  of  God, 
which  like  a  consuming  fire  burns  away  the  dross,  leaving  noth- 
ing but  the  purest  elements,  only  those  that  will  withstand  the 
ravages  of  time:  "  and  (God)  breathed  into  his  nostrils  the 
breath  of  life:  and  man  became  a  living  soul/'  Genesis  II.  7. 
The  term  immortality  implies  that  man  has  become  one  with 
the  Father:  he  can  do  nothing  of  himself,  uthe  Father  dwelling 
within,  he  doeth  the  work.*' 

The  great  mistake  of  the  Christian  church  is  in  believing 
that  man  must  die  in  order  to  enter  into  immortal  life.  Such  a 
belief  is  not  only  misleading,  but  it  is  a  barrier  to  soul  growth 
and  unfoldment.  It  is  a  clog  upon  man's  footsteps,  retarding  his 
progress  toward  the  goal  of  earthly  and  spiritual  attainment, 
and  fettering  him  to  a  material  existence.  It  contracts  the  in- 
tellect, dwarfs  the  understanding,  and  prevents  man  from  com- 
prehending the  purpose  of  the  divine  Father.  When  God 
created  man,  he  expressed  his  purpose  in  these  words,  "Let  us 
make  man  in  our  image,  after  our  likeness:  and  let  them  have 
dominion  over  the  fish  of  the  sea,  and  over  the  fowl  of  the  air, 
and  over  the  cattle,  and  over  all  the  earth."  If  it  is  true  that 
man  was  created  in  the  image  and  likeness  of  God,  then  it 
must  follow  that,  when  he  has  unfolded  that  likeness,  he  will 
have  become  immortal  and  cannot  die.  He  must  live  on.  ever 
growing  in  spiritual  power,  until  he  reaches  a  period  when  the 
spiritual  ego,  the  real,  conscious  man,  is  able  to  understand  the 
purpose  and  will  of  the  divine  Father.  Then  and  not  till  then 
will  he  be  one  with  the  immortals,  and,  being  filled  with  wisdom 


12  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

and  love,  he  will  be  intrusted  with  spiritual  powers  which  will 
not  only  enable  him  to  say  to  the  elements,  "Peace,  be  still," 
but  truthfully  to  exclaim,  tk()h  death,  where  is  thy  sting?  Oh 
grave,  where  is  thy  victory?" 

No  man,  be  he  Jew,  Christian,  Pagan,  or  Gentile,  who  passes 
into  the  unseen  land  through  the  gateway  of  the  grave,  be- 
comes thereby  immortal  in  the  true  acceptation  of  the  term.  The 
man  whose  physical  body  sees  corruption,  and  becomes  food 
for  worms,  is  not  immortal,  no  matter  what  he  imagines  himself 
to  be.  The  man  who  has  not  overcome  death  and  the  grave  is 
still  mortal;  a  spiritual  soul,  clothed  it  may  be  in  a  beautiful 
form,  with  a  mind  development  which  makes  him  a  peer  among 
his  fellows,  a  leader  and  controller  of  men,  yet  he  is  only  a  hu- 
man animal,  and  cannot  express  the  image  in  which  lie  was 
created.  It  is  sad,  nevertheless  it  is  true,  that  such  an  one 
may  pass  into  the  realm  of  souls  with  a  consciousness  of  spirit 
but  a  few  degrees  greater  than  that  possessed  by  one  apparently 
far  below  him  in  the  scale  of  uufoldment.  It  frequently  occurs 
that  he  does  not  regain  consciousness  after  the  mortal  breath 
leaves  the  body.  However,  the  degree  of  consciousness  pos- 
sessed after  death  depends  entirely  upon  the  degree  of  recog- 
nition given  the  soul  life  or  consciousness,  and  its  consequent 
growth  and  unfoldment,  while  on  earth.  The  man  who  is  un- 
conscious after  death  will  remain  so  until,  in  the  fullness  of 
time,  mother  nature  awakens  him  and  forces  him  back  into  an- 
other mortal  body,  where  he  will  be  compelled  to  take  up  the 
thread  of  life  where  it  was  broken  off.  The  mortal  man  is 
compelled  by  forcing  circumstances  to  take  upon  himself  a 
covering  of  flesh  in  order  that  the  expressed  purpose  of  his 
Creator  may  be  ultimated.  The  immortal  man  who,  for  a 
purpose,  desires  to  return  to  earth,  takes  upon  himself  a  body 
suited  to  the  needs  that  bring  him  among  men,  and  retains  it 
only  as  long  as  he  finds  a  use  for  it.  It  is  only  through  rein- 
carnation that  man  gains  knowledge  enabling  him  to  put  off 
the  mortal  and  take  on  the  immortal.  The  purpose  underlying 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  13 

the  expulsion  of  Adam  from  the  garden  of  Eden  was  that  man 
might  become  immortal:  when  he  gains  the  desired  end,  he  will 
re-enter  the  Paradise  of  God,  never  again  to  be  driven  out. 

When  the  individual  has  reached  that  high  altitude  of  soul 
growth  giving  him  access  to  the  realm  of  spirit  wherein  dwell 
the  immortal  ones,  desires  to  renounce  the  fleshly  body,  he 
does  not  lay  it  in  the  grave,  but,  by  the  power  of  the  Father's 
will,  which  has  become  a  part  of  himself,  he  commands, 
"  Dust  to  dust,  ashes  to  ashes, "  and,  in  obedience  to  the  power 
of  the  omnipotent  word,  which  is  the  deific  thought  from  which 
the  spiritual  ego  has  developed,  the  atoms  composing  the  phys- 
ical covering  separate  and  return  to  the  source  whence  they 
were  drawn.  The  spiritual  immortal  man,  forever  free  from 
the  thralldom  of  earthly  conditions,  passes  onward  to  the  realm 
of  the  blest,  where,  the  realm  in  which  he  shall  labor  as  one  of 
the  gods,  is  determined  by  USK,  the  great  law  of  spirit.  In  the 
spiritual  realm  alone,  which  can  only  be  entered  by  those  who 
have  developed  unceasing  consciousness,  does  man  enjoy  per- 
petual youth,  being  sustained  and  nourished  from  that  illimit- 
able fountain  of  eternal  life, — God.  He  who  is  able  to  drink 
from  this  everflowing,  ever- vivifying,  fountain  has  indeed  dis- 
covered the  Elixir  of  Life,  the  Philosopher's  Stone,  which  en- 
ables him  to  be  what  he  wills  to  be.  Such  an  one,  if  he  so  de- 
sires, can  return  to  earth  as  a  savior  of  men.  If  this  is  his 
choice,  he  must,  being  superior  to  the  men  of  earth,  walk  among 
them,  "  treading  the  wine  press  alone,"  unknown,  and  perhaps 
despised;  yet  he  is  ever  conscious  of  the  overshadowing  love  of 
his  Creator,  and  can  exclaim,  as  did  our  Lord  and  Master,  our 
greatly  beloved  brother,  Jesus  the  Christ,"  The  Father  has  not 
left  me  alone;  for  I  do  always  those  things  that  please  him." 

The  Spirit  of  God  never  leaves  such  an  one,  but  in  the  dark- 
est hour  of  trial,  when  the  sins  of  a  perverted  world  almost 
crush  the  sensitive  soul,  when  the  bitter  cup  of  trial  is  placed 
to  the  lips,  he  can,  in  the  solitude  of  his  chamber  where  adver- 
saries cannot  enter,  return  to  his  spiritual  home  and  to  those 


14  TIIK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

who  know  and  love  him  for  his  great  sacrifice,  and  there  receive 
the  strength  to  perform  his  work  on  earth.  Such  an  immortal 
Son  of  God,  was  Jesus,  who  permitted  his  body  to  he  laid  in 
the  grave  for  three  days,  proving  to  the  world  that  "  the  word 
became  flesh,  £nd  dwelt  among  us, — and  we  beheld  his  glory,  a 
glory  of  an  only-begotten  from  a  father, — full  of  favor  and 
truth."  (  E.  G.  )  St.  John  I.  14. 

If  the  man  who  has  gained  the  pearl  of  great  pi-ice,  who  has 
eaten  of  the  fruit  of  the  tree  of  knowledge  of  good  and  evil, 
chooses  to  remain  on  earth  as  a  server  among  men,  he  may  do 
so:  he  that  is  greatest  among  you,  is  servant  of  all.  If  this 
be  his  choice  he  can  not  only  retain  his  youth  and  vigor,  but  he 
can  keep  his  mental  faculties  unimpared:  he  can  even  increase  his 
capacity  to  understand  the  laws  governing  the  realm  of  shadows 
called  "earth."  He  draws  his  knowledge  from  the  cause  realm 
which  produces  all  the  phenomena  witnessed  among  men.  lie 
lives  entirely  on  spiritual  food,  thinks  only  spiritual  thoughts 
in  harmony  with  the  purpose  of  God,  and,  as  days  succeed 
days,  his  powers  increase,  until  his  wisdom  transcends  the  wis- 
dom of  men;  verily  he  is  no  longer  a  human,  but  a  divine  mnn. 
lie  can,  if  he  so  desires,  walk  the  earth  a  king,  a  priest  unto 
God,  one  with  the  celestials,  not  only  possessing  power  over  the 
things  of  earth,  but  also  over  the  unseen  forces  of  nature. 

The  foregoing  statements  are  based  upon  knowledge,  as  well 
as  upon  the  assurance  of  God  himself.  In  Holy  Writ  we  read, 
"But  seek  ye  first  the  kingdom  of  God,  and  his  righteousness; 
and  all  these  things  shall  be  added  unto  you."  Matt.  vi.  33. 
If  God  commanded  man  to  seek  his  kingdom,  it  certainly  fol- 
lows that  he  can,  if  he  be  diligent,  find  it,  for  God  does  not 
mock  the  child  he  has  created.  If  it  is  possible  to  find  the 
kingdom  of  God,  it  is  surely  possible  to  gain  immortal  life,  for 
no  one  can  dwell  in  that  kingdom  unless  all  the  sins  of  earth 
life  have  been  washed  away  and  a  spiritual  consciousness  gained. 
A  spiritual  consciousness  must  be  an  immortal  consciousness,  as 
spirit  is  eternal.  Again,  God  is  spirit,  and  only  in  spirit  can 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  15 

we  truly  worship  him.  If,  therefore,  man  does  not  become 
spiritual,  which  is  another  term  for  immortal,  he  can  never  gain 
heaven,  can  never  worship  the  Father.  Thank  God,  however, 
the  way  leading  to  heaven  is  simple,  and  easy  to  find:  "the 
wayfaring  men,  though  fools,  shall  not  err  therein."  The  pur- 
pose in  giving  these  thoughts  to  the  world  is  to  point  out  the 
road  that  leads  from  a  land  of  sin,  sorrow  and  death,  to  one 
where  death  and  sorrow  cannot  enter,  but  where  the  Angel  of 
peace  and  love  rules.  The  love  of  the  angels  will  always  over- 
shadow the  sons  and  daughters  of  earth  who  have  renounced 
the  flesh  and  are  seeking  immortal  life, — oneness  with  (rod,  the 
Father  and  Creator  of  the  universe. 

Until  he  has  paid  every  debt  he  owes,  the  individual  must 
remain  a  mortal,  must  be  subject  to  the  law  of  death  and  de- 
cay, and  must  continue  to  return  into  a  fleshly  body.  If  he  is 
an  unjust  man,  if  he  loves  not  his  neighbor  as  himself,  if  he 
takes  the  name  of  the  Lord  in  vain,  if  he  bows  down  to  graven 
images,  if  he  worships  the  golden  calf,  if  he  is  bound  by  the 
physical  senses  and  desires,  if  his  mind  is  clouded  by  the  pas- 
sions, he  must  return  to  earth,  times  without  number,  or  until 
he  has  become  as  pure  and  innocent  as  a  little  babe:  it  is  only 
as  a  little  child  that  lie  can  enter  heaven.  Heaven  is  not  a 
place,  but  a  condition,  a  state  of  consciousness;  and  until  he  is 
able  to  maintain  this  heavenly  state  within  himself,  man  cannot 
gain  immortality.  Tutil  he  is  able  to  do  so  he  must  earn  his 
bread  in  the  sweat  of  his  brow,  he  is  still  under  the  law.  II*1 
must  labor  on  earth  as  a  mortal  until  he  has  unfolded  the  like- 
ness of  God  in  which  he  was  created.  Only  after  the  spirit, 
the  inner  man,  gains  the  dominion  over  matter  is  man  able  to 
break  the  shackles  of  flesh.  Not  until  then  can  he  stand  as  a 
king,  a  sovereign  having  dominion  over  the  old  adversary,  the 
serpent,  who  has  filled  our  fair  earth  with  sin  and  error, — the  di- 
rect cause  of  misery  and  death.  Man  cannot  be  an  immortal,  un- 
til he  is  free  from  the  binding  and  limiting  influence  of  a  material 
existence;  he  cannot  conquer  the  power  of  the  grave  until  he 


16  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

has  obtained  control  of  the  forces  of  nature,  which  have  always 
compelled  the  race  to  be  slaves  instead  of  free  men 

"This  life's  a  mystery. 
The  value  of  a  thought  cannot  be  told; 
But  it  is  clearly  worth  a  thousand  lives 
Like  many  men's.      And  yet  men  love  to  live 
As  if  mere  life  were  worth  their  living  for. 
What  but  perdition  will  it  be  to  most? 
Life's  more  than  breath  and  the  quick  round  of  blood 
It  is  a  great  spirit  and  a  busy  heart. 
The  coward  and  the  small  in  soul  scarce  do  live. 
One  generous  feeling — one  great  thought — one  deed 
Of  good,  ere  night,  would  make  life  longer  seem 
Than  if  each  year  might  number  a  thousand  days,— 
Spent  as  is  this  by  nations  of  mankind. 
We  live  in  deeds,  not  years;  in  thoughts,  not  breaths: 
In  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a  dial. 
We  should  count  time  by  heart-throbs.    He  most  lives 
Who  thinks  most — feels  the  noblest — acts  the  best. 
Life's  but  a  means  unto  an  end — that  end, 
Beginning,  mean  and  end  to  all  things — God." 


CHAPTER  II. 


RIGHT  THOUGHT. 

In  order  to  intelligently  enter  the  cause  or  soul  realm  it  is 
indispensable  that  the  individual  have  an  understanding  of  the 
laws  governing  that  world  and  the  methods  of  putting  himself 
in  harmony  with  them.  As  this  book  is  written  for  general  cir- 
culation, the  necessary  explanation  will  be  made  in  the  simplest 
language  possible,  and  we  ask  the  reader  to  withhold  judg- 
ment until  he  has  given  them  his  earnest  thought.  We  promise 
that  if  the  methods  given  are  faithfully  practiced,  the  results 
claimed  for  them  certainly  will  be  realized.  Should  the  student 
fail  to  realize  them,  it  will  not  be  the  fault  of  the  methods,  but 
because  of  a  lack  of  will  and  determination  on  the  part  of  the 
individual.  These  laws  are  God's  laws,  therefore,  they  are  not 
subject  to  change;  man  is.  As  he  grows  in  spiritual  understand- 
ing, he  becomes  sensitive  to  the  operation  of  these  laws;  and, 
therefore,  can  readily  perceive,  obey,  and  benefit  by  them.  It 
is  for  the  purpose  of  giving  timely  suggestions  that  we  present 
these  methods;  and  we  feel  satisfied  that,  if  they  are  adhered 
to,  the  individual  will  be  led  to  where  he  need  no  longer  depend 
upon  mortals  for  instruction  and  advice.  He  will  be  led  to  where 
the  consciousness  of  the  spiritual  ego,  will  be  his  consciousness; 
he  will  know  the  relation  he  bears  to  the  Father,  and  will,  there- 
fore, be  in  a  condition  to  perceive  and  comprehend  the  will  and 
purpose  of  God  concerning  him,  his  mission,  and  his  ultimate 
destiny;  he  will  be  able  to  draw  knowledge  from  the  Mind  that 
controls  all  the  affairs  of  earth. 

Man  is  threefold  in  his  nature, — body,  soul  and  spirit.  To  be 
perfect,  an  immortal,  he  must  round  out  all  sides  of  his  nature, 
establishing  an  equilibrium.  Until  this  result  is  obtained,  he  has 


18  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

not  reached  the  goal  of  human  attainment,  and  is  open  to  various 
deceptions,  and  many  disappointments.  He  still  lacks  wisdom, 
and  is  unable  to  succesfully  withstand  the  subtle  forces  that 
guard  the  spiritual  realm  from  unlawful  intruders.  It  requires 
a  fearless  and  well-trained  will  to  conquer  these  monsters  who 
obey  only  those  who  have  learned  how  to  command  them. 

The  material  body  of  man  allies  him  to  the  world  of  effect, 
which  is  the  visible  expression  of  unseen,  and — to  the  majority 
of  people — unknown  laws.  These  laws  are  active  in  the  realm 
of  soul,  and  only  a  spiritual  consciousness  is  capable  of  fully 
understanding  them.  Man  as  we  know  him  in  our  age,  does 
not  (appear  to)  possess  this  consciousness,  a,t  least  it  is  not  suf- 
ficently  active  to  be  of  practical  use  in  his  daily  life.  It  is  la- 
tent in  all,  however,  and  will  manifest  itself  as  soon  as  the  phys- 
ical body  has  become  sufficiently  purified  and  refined  to  per- 
mit it  to  do  so.  We  will,  therefore,  first  call  attention  to  the 
methods  by  which  this  much  desired  condition  may  be  reached. 

It  is  most  important  that  the  physical  organism  be  consid- 
ered: it  allies  man  to  the  earth,  and  is  the  medium  through 
which  the  soul  gains  experience  and  thereby  knowledge.  The 
material  body  is  a  thought  creation,  builded  of  elements  drawn 
from  the  blood  by  the  Virgo  function,  the  chemist  of  the  human 
organism.  This  function  is  controlled  by  the  intellectual  mind, 
whose  seat  is  in  the  brain,  under  orders,  as  it  were,  of  the  soul 
or  interior  mind,  whose  seat  is  in  the  Solar  Plexus.  The  body 
is  builded  under  the  direction  of  the  soul  mind,  in  order  that 
it  may  be  a  fitting  instrument  through  which  the  experiences 
necessary  to  the  soul  may  be  gained. 

The  man  who  has  not  risen  above  the  animal  plane  requires  a 
material  body,  in  order  that  he  may  gain  a  comprehensive  un- 
derstanding of  the  laws  and  methods  active  in  the  physical 
world  in  which  he  dwells.  The  spiritual  man  requires  a  more 
refined  organism,  in  order  that  he  may  be  able  to  understand 
and  use  the  more  subtle  forces  belonging  to  the  realm  which 
he  is  preparing  to  enter.  The  methods  by  which  the  body  may 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  19 

be  refined  and  spiritualized  are  based  upon  the  formulation  of 
pure  and  holy  thoughts.  Before  the  body  can  be  changed,  new 
and  more  refined  qualities  of  life  must  not  only  be  gathered 
but  retained  in  the  organism.  It^js  absolutely  necessary  that 
all  thejife  generated  by  the  body  be  retained,  in  order  that  the 
blood  may  be  kept  filled  with  the  proper  magnetic  elements 
with  which  to  supply  to  body  and  mind  the  vitality  required 
by  all  who  would  withstand  the  powers  of  disease  and  conse- 
quent decay. 

In  order  that  finer  and  more  spi ritual  life  may  be  gathered, 
more  exalted  realms  of  mind  must  be  reached  than  is  possible 
or  necessary  to  the  man  living  wholly  in  the  external  senses. 
This  can  be  accomplished  only  through  soul  aspiration,  which 
is  true  prayer.  This  prayer  arises  in  the  heart,  the  seat  of  the 
love  nature,  the  emotions,  and  the  desires.  The  more  exalted 
the  desire,  the  higher  will  be  the  realm  of  spirit  reached.  A 
desire  to  be  intelligently  formulated  must  fit  some  special  use 
arising  in  the  mind.  Holy  and  unselfish  desires  bring  the 
quickest  and  surest  results.  If  the  desire  is  for  an  immortal, 
spiritual  existence,  it  must  be  absloutely  free  from  all  thought 
of  self  or  wish  for  power  to  control  another.  Immortality  is 
the  highest  possible  attainment  man  can  hope  for  or  at  pres- 
ent comprehend,  therefore  an  intelligent  desire  for  such  attain- 
ment cannot  be  formulated  until  the  selfhood  has  been  cruci- 
fied and  forever  placed  under  the  absolute  control  of  the  higher 
faculties  of  mind. 

But  one  attitude  of  mind  will  enable  man  to  reach  those 
realms  of  spirit  which  gives  him  power  with  the  immortals, 
and  this  mental  attitude  is  not  possible  until  he  has  grown  so 
tired  of  earthly  things  that  he  is  willing  to  die  to  all  material 
pleasures  and  desires,  hopes  and  joys.  Truly,  man  must  die  to 
the  old  before  it  is  possible  for  him  to  enter  the  new:  he  must 
be  willing  to  renounce  all  ties,  of  every  name  and  nature,  which 
in  the  slightest  degree  bind  him  to  the  old  order  and  condition 
of  life.  He  must  feel  in  the  interior  consciousness  that  the  only 


20  THE    ROAD   TO    IMMORTALITY. 

thing  which  will  bring  him  complete  happiness  and  satisfaction, 
is  to  become  an  instrument  in  the  hands  of  the  Supreme  to 
serve  in  the  elevation  of  the  race  to  a  higher  plane  of  soul  con- 
sciousness. 

The  man  who  would  become  an  immortal  must  truly  desire 
to  be  a  servant  of  humanity.  To  attain  this  end  he  must  first 
know  himself:  he  must  be  able  to  analyze  every  desire  arising 
in  the  heart,  to  decide  whether  it  is  useful  to  his  welfare  or  a 
hindrance  to  his  spiritual  progress.  The  desires  must  be  con- 
trolled by  the  mind.  Use  must  be  the  law  governing  his  ac- 
tions. He  must  be  able  to  utilize  or  reject  any  or  all  of  his 
desires  and  emotions.  Not  only  must  he  be  able  to  do  this, 
but  he  must  be  willing  to  place  himself,  without  a  doubt  or 
reservation,  in  the  keeping  of  his  highest  conception  of  God; 
he  must  be  willing  absolutely  to  trust  his  heavenly  Father, 
whose  wisdom,  love,  and  justice,  he  knows  will  permit  only 
only  those  trials  and  disappointments  that  are  necessary  to  his 
welfare. 

Two  ways  of  living  are  presented  to  all;  man  can,  if  he  so 
desires,  rely  upon  his  own  strength,  or  upon  the  power  of  the 
Spirit.  If  his  dependence  is  in  the  power  of  flesh,  he  trusts  in 
human  judgment,  which  is  unreliable.  If  he  is  satisfied  to  de- 
pend upon  the  power  of  the  Spirit  to  guide,  he  will  always  have 
a  sure  refuge  in  the  hour  of  need.  If  he  must  still  lean  upon 
the  uncertain  arm  of  flesh,  if  it  is  impossible  for  him  to  trust 
God  wholly,  he  cannot  obtain  the  guidance  of  the  Spirit.  When 
man  can  trust  God  fully,  the  power  of  the  Father  is  his;  he  is 
in  a  condition  to  enter  the  "Narrow  Way,"  the  way  of  holiness. 
And  if  he  unfaulteringly  treads  the  way  of  holiness,  he  will  soon 
realize  that  sorrow  and  pain  hav^3  fled,  never  to  return — and 
they  never  will  return  unless  he  wanders  from  the  true  path. 
Every  mortal  that  would  leave  the  land  of  shadow,  must  tread 
the  "Narrow  Way"  of  holiness.  It  is  the  only  way  by  which 
the  land  of  eternal  sunshine  can  be  reached. 

No  dangers  or  trials  are  ever  found  in  the  Way  of  Holiness. 


TMK    ROAD    TO     IMMORTALITY.  21 

But  he  who  strays  from  the  true  path,  because  of  striving  to 
live  up  to  his  own  ideals,  will  find  himself  confronted  by  diffi- 
culties and  dangers.  To  keep  in  the  path,  is  to  be  ever  con- 
scious of  the  presence  of  the  Spirit.  Live  rightly,  regardless 
of  what  it  costs.  To  follow  the  inner  promptings  of  the  soul, 
without  reference  to  the  opinion  of  others,  is  the  only  safe  way. 
Patience  and  fortitude  of  soul  is,  therefore,  to  be  learned  here: 
no  matter  what  may  come  to  you.  do  not  falter,  but  with  re- 
newed energy,  determination,  and  prayer,  pi-ess  onward:  you 
can,  and  eventually  will,  if  you  are  faithful,  reach  the  desired 
haven. 

Many  grand  and  devout   souls  are  scattered    throughout   the 

land,  who  continually  think  pure  and    holy   thoughts,  and    who         . 

daily  pray.  "Let  thy  kingdom  come,  thy  will  be  done,"  yet  ap- 
parently they  do  not  obtain  an  answer  to  their  prayer.  They 
live,  perhaps,  the  allotted  three  score  years  and  ten,  and  pass 
from  earth  without  reaching  the  goal  of  earthly  existence.  They 
fail  to  reach  that  goal  because  they  have  no  knowledge  of  the 
law,  therefore  do  not  live  in  obedience  to  it.  These  beautiful 
souls  are  God's  little,  well  beloved  children.  Their  prayers, 
when  truly  from  the  soul,  have  been  always  answered:  perhaps 
not  as  they  hoped,  but,  nevertheless,  answered.  Such  souls  are 
tenderly  nurtured  and  protected  by  our  ever  watchful,  loving 
Parent.  Whenever  he  sees  that  the  experience  necessary  to  lit 
them  for  future  use  has  been  obtained,  he  gathers  them  to  him- 
self. These  grand  souls  must,  however,  re-incarnate,  and  again 
become  workers  among  men.  They  will  not  remember  the  past, 
but  their  aspirations  and  devout,  unselfish  life,  have  builded 
beautiful  and  highly  exalted  souls.  Thousands  of  such  are  ac- 
tive members  in  the  Christian  churches,  awaiting  the  time  when 
God  sees  fit  to  awaken  them  to  their  true  use  in  his  vineyard. 

The  souls  now  on  earth  who  are  ready  to  comprehend  God's 
laws  are  no  longer  little  children:  they  have  grown  to  be  men 
and  women.  Therefore  God  no  longer  carries  them  in  his 
bosom,  with  jealous  love  protecting  and  guarding  them  from 


22  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

all  dangers,  but  sets  them  upon  their  feet,  and  gives  the  com- 
mand, "Go  work  in  my  vineyard."  They  have  grown  old 
enough  to  he  trusted  with  the  mysteries  of  life,  and  of  death. 
The  proof  of  their  readiness  is  in  the  deep  yearning  of  the  soul 
to  know  the  will  of  the  Father  that  they  may  do  it.  They 
could  but  imperfectly  obey  the  will  before,  because  they  had 
not  the  necessary  experience.  They  could  not  dedicate  their 
all  to  the  Father,  because  they  were  unable  to  comprehend  the 
need  of  such  a  renunciation.  They  could  not  take  the  name  of 
God  for  their  protection,  because  they  did  not  know  his  name. 
(The  name  and  its  use  will  be  explained  further  on.) 

If  our  readers  have  reached  a  mature  stage  of  growth,  they 
will  understand  the  need  of  a  complete  surrender  to  the  Spirit 
of  God.  Feeling  the  necessity  of  this  is  not  sufficient:  the  sur- 
render must  be  made  by  the  interior  nature,  by  every  atom  of 
the  being.  Years  of  constant  effort  are  required,  and  much 
self-sacrifice,  before  this  most  desirable  end  can  be  fully  real- 
ized.  The  old  ego,  self,  continually  present,  is  an  almost  in- 
surmountable  barrier  to  the  unfoldment  of  soul  powers,  it 
stands  ever  beside  man  to  remind  him  of  his  earthly  existence, 
and,  as  it  is  the  personality,  it  will  not  be  set  aside  without  a 
great  struggle.  Self  dies  hard,  and  dies  only  after  the  inner 
man  has  gained  complete  mastery  over  the  lower  nature.  If 
you  would  set  aside  the  lower  self  and  replace  it  by  the  spirit- 
ual man,  the  celestial-born  son  of  God,  you  must  avoid  those 
who  scoff  at  sacred,  or  spiritual  things.  Seek  only  the  society 
of  those  who  are  pure  and  free  from  sensual  thoughts.  It 
would  be  far  better  to  dwell  in  solitude  than  to  spend  your  time 
in  the  company  of  the  ungodly. 

The  man  who  would  reach  the  high  goal  of 'human  attain- 
ment, oneness  with  God,  must  learn  not  to  condemn  his  fel- 
lows. He  should  look  upon  man  as  a  creation  of  God,  and  as 
possessing  the  latent  powers  of  an  archangel.  There  is  good 
in  all;  search  for  the  good,  and  ever  love  the  divine  principle, 
hidden,  it  may  be,  under  a  rough  and  repulsive  exterior.  Over- 
come evil  with  good.  Pray  constantly  that  you  may  receive 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  23 

from  God,  wisdom,  knowledge,  and  understanding.  Remem- 
ber, however,  that  you  will  not  receive  these  gifts  until  you 
have  renounced  evil  and  are  able  to  hold  fast  to  the  good. 
Only  those  who  are  able  to  discreetly  use  divine  wisdom  will 
receive  it  into  their  hearts.  Without  wisdom  from  on  high, 
you  will  surely  fail  in 'your  struggle  to  overthrow  the  powers  of 
evil  which  have  heretofore  controlled  your  life. 

If  man  would  throw  off  the  mortal  and  put  on  the  immortal, 
he  must  not  attempt  to  store  up  riches  in  provision  for  the  fu- 
ture. Such  an  attitude  of  mind,  in  itself,  precludes  the  possi- 
bility of  gaining  an  immortal  existence.  Remember  that  the 
man  or  the  woman  who  has  renounced  the  world,  who  has  dedi- 
cated his  or  her  life  to  God,  no  longer  owns  that  life,  but  must 
live  up  to  the  injunction  of  Jesus,  "Take  no  thought  for  the 
morrow:  for  the  morrow  shall  take  thought  for  the  things  of 
itself.  Sufficient  unto  the  day  is  the  evil  thereof."  Matt.  VI.  34. 
(Carefully  consider  St.  Matthew,  VI.)  If  your  dedication 
has  been  complete,  you  will  know  that  God  has  accepted  y»>u, 
and  that  he  will  provide  all  tilings  necessary  to  your  com- 
fort. It  is  not  to  be  inferred,  as  many  will  undoubtedly  do, 
that  you  are  to  sit  down  in  idleness,  depending  upon  God  to 
bring  you  the  needed  supplies  in  some  miraculous  manner. 
Such  a  course  will  surely  bring  disappointment;  God  will  do 
nothing  for  you  that  you  can  do  yourself.  It  is  only  the  un- 
balanced man,  the  man  lacking  in  knowledge  and  understand- 
ing, who  trusts  in  this  way.  The  wise  man,  the  well-balanced 
son  of  God.  does  his  best,  and  when  he  has  done  this,  he  confi- 
dently, with  loving  trust,  looks  to  his  Father,  knowing  full  well 
that,  when  the  limit  of  his  own  strength  has  been  reached,  God 
will  supply  that  which  is  lacking. 

The  man  who  would  receive  the  illumination  of  the  Spirit, 
must  use  whatever  mind  power  he  may  possess;  it  is  only  through 
use  that  such  faculties  are  developed.  Therefore  he  must  con- 
tinually gather  thought,  not  alone  for  his  own  need,  but  for  the 
needs  of  those  who  stand  below  him  in  soul  unfoldment.  As 
he  gathers  and  disseminates  this  vital  thought,  clothed  with  the 


'1  THK    KOAD    TO    IMMOKTAUTV. 

potential  energies  drawn  from  the  mind  of  God,  his  mind  quick- 
ens into  greater  action,  and.  in  consequence,  becomes  more  re- 
ceptive, or  better  able  to  reflect  the  purpose  of  the  higher  mind 
and  will.  The  more  yon  give,  the  more  yon  will  receive:  the 
more  unselfish  yon  are,  the  more  perfectly  will  yon  be  able  to 
gather  thoughts  that  will  be  of  benefit  to  others. 

We  advise  those  who  are  seeking  immortality  to  cast  their 
bread  upon  the  waters,  to  scatter  it  npon  the  tide  of  human 
life.  Rest  assured,  if  yon  do  so,  with  the  desire  active  to  serve 
the  needs  of  humanity,  it  will  return,  increased  an  hundred 
fold.  Neither  the  man  who  tries  to  obtain  knowledge  for  self 
alone,  nor  the  one  who  sits  down  and  dreams  his  time  away, 
will  amount  to  very  rnneh:  both  will  slowly  bnt  surely  sink 
into  that  state  of  sleep  which  means,  not  immortality  but  death — 
death  not  only  to  the  physical  man,  but  to  the  mental  as  well. 
The  dreamer  will  never  reach  the  high  goal  of  attainment,  he 
will  never  enter  heaven:  only  the  fearless,  unselfish  warrior  who 
is  constantly  on  the  alert,  ever  watching  the  enemy  in  order  to 
gain  the  mastery  over  it,  will  obtain  the  right  to  dwell  in  the 
kingdom  of  the  blest. 

The  man  who  dreams  instead  of  laboring,  has  the  opportunity 
for  soul  growth  presented  to  him,  but  as  he  sleeps,  he  does  not 
perceive  it.  If  he  gathers  thoughts  at  all,  they  are  not  praiv 
tical.  Not  having  his  purpose  well  defined,  he  has  no  center 
from  which  to  work,  no  foundation  upon  which  to  erect  his 
spiritual  structure.  He  is  like  a  ship  without  a  chart  or  com- 
pass. When  the  dark  tempestuous  night  overtakes  the  dreamer, 
he  will  awaken  to  find  himself  struggling  upon  the  quicksand 
ot  doubt  and  materialism,  lost  through  disobedience  and  wasted 
opportunities.  The  man  who  dreams  instead  of  laboring,  weak- 
ens his  mental  faculties,  and  therefore  becomes  an  easy  prey  to 
the  vampires  who  feed  upon  humanity.  His  struggles  are  of 
short  duration,  however;  he  soon  passes  from  earth  to  enter  the 
laud  of  souls,  not  as  immortal,  but  as  one  in  a  dream,  contin- 
ually lamenting  his  wasted  opportunities,  his  misspent  life,  un- 


IHK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  25 

til  kind  nature  puts  him  to  sleep,  a  state  in  which  he  remains 
until  the  time  arrives  for  him  to  again  take  on  an  earthly  cov- 
ering, to  begin  life  where  he  left  off,  with  greater  trials  before 
him  than  he  has  yet  encountered. 

The  idle  dreamer  is  of  but  little  use  to  the  human  race.  In- 
stead of  building  upon  the  only  sure  foundation, — the  rock  of 
truth, — a  tower  whose  light  will  illuminate  the  earth,  he  builds, 
upon  the  sands  of  uncertainty,  and  never  really  lays  the  founda- 
tion for  a  well-balanced  spiritual  nature.  If  you  would  be  an 
overcomer  of  evil,  if  you  would  command  and  be  obeyed,  you 
must  labor  incessantly  with  your  body  and  with  your  mental 
faculties:  labor  with  the  body  in  order  that  it  may  be  filled  with 
enduring  strength  and  vigor;  labor  with  your  mental  faculties  in 
order  that,  through  use,  you  may  so  develop  them  that  the  power 
of  man  be  transformed  into  the  transcendental  power  of  a  god. 
The  mental  faculties  are  the  servants  of  the  spirit,  and  through 
them  you  receive  spiritual  illumination.  Mind  is  all  that  sur- 
vives when  the  external  covering  is  cast  off.  Therefore,  if  you 
would  unfold  that  consciousness  that  never  slumbers  or  sleeps, 
use  every  means  at  your  command.  When  you  do  this,  higher 
means  will  be  presented  to  you,  and  in  time  you  will  realize 
in  every  fiber  of  your  being  that  you  have  truly  passed  from 
death  unto  life;  not  through  the  gateway  of  the  grave,  but 
through  the  alliance  of  your  finite  mind  to  the  infinite  mind 
of  God. 


CHAPTER   111. 


THE     FOUNTAIN     OF    LIVING    WATERS. 

In  the  preceding  chapter  we  stated  that,  by  a  process  of  the 
mind,  the  material  body  is  builded  of  thought  potencies  drawn 
from  elements  of  life  contained  in  the  blood.  If  the  seeker 
after  immortality  would  have  a  physical  organism  that  is  proof 
against  the  adversaries  disease  and  death,  and  one  able  freely  to 
supply  the  demands  of  the  mind,  he  must  keep  it  tilled  with 
the  elements  of  life.  Those  living  in  the  old  order  of  life  can- 
not do  this;  the  life  generated  is  not  all  retained,  as  it  should 
be,  but  is  continually  being  squandered  in  the  gratification  of 
abnormal  passions,  the  natural  fruit  of  ignorance  and  unre- 
strained animal  desires.  Squandering  the  precious  elements  of 
life,  causes  an  abnormal  drain  upon  the  fountain  of  supply:  this 
weakens  the  organs  which  gather,  and,  as  they  become  impo- 
tent, they  are  unable  to  perform  the  task  imposed  upon  them. 
As  the  supply  diminishes,  youthful  vivacity  and  vigor  are 
superseded  by  old  age,  and  death  finally  results. 

Once  in  every  four  weeks  there  is  born  within  the  human 
organism  a  germ,  designated  a  "psychic  germ."  This  germ  is 
endowed  with  higher  qualities  of  life  than  are  the  germs  from 
which  the  physical  body  has  been  builded,  and  which  are  gen- 
erated daily.  It  may  be  called  the  "evolutionary  germ,"  for 
through  the  potencies  of  the  life  contained  in  it  man  advances 
toward  his  ultimate  destiny,  oneness  with  Spirit.  When  lim- 
ited, or  incorporated  into  form,  be  it  animal  or  human,  life  al- 
ways struggles  to  express  the  qualities  of  mind  with  which  it 
is  endowed;  consequently,  as  the  life  contained  in  a  psychic 
germ  is  endowed  with  mental  power  beyond  that  possessed  by 
the  individual,  and  as  it  endeavors  to  express  that  higher  qual- 
ity, manifestly  a  struggle  is  the  result.  As  the  mind  strives  to 


THK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  27 

harmonize  the  body,  and  to  adjust  it  to  the  more  spiritual  po- 
tencies with  which  it  has  been  entrusted,  a  state  of  mental  an- 
tagonism arises:  so  that  if  the  mind  is  not  centralized  on  spirit, 
and  if  it  is  not  free  from  sense  desire,  the  struggles  result  in 
the  vital,  spiritual  germ  being  rejected  from  the  organism. 

The  loss  of  the  spiritual  germ  generally  occurs  during  sleep, 
when  the  mind  is  passive  and  unconscious  of  the  needs  of  the 
physical  body.  The  time  of  the  birth  of  this  germ  is  governed 
by  the  moon,  and  it  is  qualitated  by  the  astral  ether  in  which 
that  body  is  at  the  time  immersed.  Kach  month,  as  the  moon 
enters  the  sign  in  which  the  earth  was  at  the  birth  of  the  indi- 
vidual, a  psychic  germ  is  born.  If  this  germ  is  retained  in  the 
organism  until  the  moon  enters  the  sign  it  occupied  at  birth, 
the  germ  is  transmuted,  and  its  mind  qualities  become  incor- 
porated into  the  man.  This  higher  and  more  spiritual  life  in- 
creases the  physical  and  mental  capacity  of  the  individual.  If 
the  psychic  germ  be  transmuted,  the  next  germ  is  born  one 
sign  earlier,  and  is  qualitated  by  the  ether  in  which  the  moon 
is  at  that  time.  •  This  process  continues  until  the  qualities  of 
the  twelve  signs  are  incorporated  into  the  organism.  When 
the  twelve  qualities  have  become  thus  incorporated,  the  powers 
of  the  earth's  zodiac  are  at  the  command  of  the  student.  The 
second  cycle  of  twelve  gives  him  the  powers  of  the  sun's  zodiac. 

The  vital,  or  psychic  germs  are  the  twelve  manner  of  fruit 
growing  upon  the  tree  of  life  which  produces  fruit  once  a 
month.  Through  the  incorporation. of  spiritual  germ*  into  the 
organism  man  gradually  develops  beyond  the  influence  of  the 
planets, — a  condition  which  is  obtained  when  he  evolves  into, 
and  lives  from,  the  grand  solar  zodiac.  As  it  takes  over  2,000 
years  to  pass  throng li  one  sign  of  the  grand  solar  zodiac,  and 
as  the  qualities  received  from  it  are  wholly  spiritual,  his  entrance 
into  this  zodiac  marks  the  time  when  the  student  becomes  free 
from  earthly  conditions  and  .starts  upon  that  journey  of  celestial 
development  which  knows  no  end.  Thus  his  growth  is  eternal, 
his  power  to  gain  and  utilize  knowledge  knows  no  limit,  and. 


28  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY". 

as  be  advances  toward  spirit,  the  greatest  joy  of  his  existence 
will  he  in  the  realization  of  the  fact,  that,  in  the  unnumbered 
ages  to  come,  he  still  will  he  only  on  the  borderland  of  the  il- 
limitable universe  that  God  has  created,  and  permits  man  to 
explore. 

The  unrestrained  gratification  of  the  sense  desires  results  in 
abnormal  passions,  which  dull  the  finer  sensibilities,  benumb 
the  mental  faculties,  cause  man  to  squander  the  precious  fluid 
of  life,  and  so  corrupt  his  mind  that  he  is  almost  wholly  gov- 
erned by  a  distorted  imagination.  This  lusting  after  the  fleslu 
has  so  blunted  his  higher  nature  as  to  have  almost  deprived 
him  of  the  finer  spiritual  instinct,  or  intuitions,  which  are  the 
only  sure  guide  to  health  and  contentment.  It  has  caused  him 
to  become  so  immersed  in  material  substance,  that  he  has  lost 
sight  of  the  true  use  for  which  the  "power  of  creation"  was 
given  him.  Such  a  course  of  life  produces  in  the  interior  na- 
ture a  condition  of  unrest  and  dissatisfaction,  which  results  di- 
rectly in  unhappiness.  disease,  and  death. 

The  lower  animals,  being  absolutely  controlled  by  the  crea- 
tive mind  which  rules  the  forces  of  generation,  obey  implicitly 
the  prompting  of  nature,  which  is,  ''Increase  and  multiply,  and 
replenish  the  earth."  Man  alone  misuses  the  powers  intrusted 
to  him,  and  we  find  the  fruits  of  his  sin  filling  our  jails,  pen- 
itentiaries, and  asylums  with  beings  in  human  form,  indeed, 
but  with  instincts  far  below  those  of  their  brothers  who  find 
embodiment  in  brute  form.  The  sin  of  the  parents  finds  ex- 
pression through  their  children,  producing,  in  many  instances, 
such  abnormal  desires,  that,  even  in  childhood,  they  are  fre- 
quently enslaved  by  those  vices  which  rob  man  of  his  true 
manly  dignity  and  godlikeiiess. 

Refusing  to  resist  unholy  desire,  and,  on  the  other  hand, 
seeking  pleasure  in  order  to  gratify  the  lustings  of  the  lower 
nature,  have  so  weakened  the  will  of  man  as  to  make  it  almost 
impossible  for  him  to  resist  these  lustings.  The  end  of  such  a 
course  of  life  is  fearful  to  contemplate — a  day  of  reckoning 


THK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  1>9 

must  surely  come.  The  gratification  of  unholy  desire  is  the 
direct  cause  of  sin,  is  the  main  spring-  of  all  the  evils  which 
causes  such  dark  shadows  to  envelop  our  race.  The  man  who 
makes  no  effort  to  control  his  sense  nature  is  very  low  in  spirit- 
ual unfoldment.  In  his  insane  desire  to  satisfy  the  awful  crav- 
ing of  the  senses,  he  tramples  in  the  dust  all  the  holier  instincts 

&  * 

of;  the  refined  and  virtuous.  Such  depravity,  if  permitted  to 
continue,  must,  sooner  or  later,  bring  ruin  and  disaster  to  the 
human  race. 

The  abnormal  craving  and  gratification  of  sense  desire  have 
created  in  the  unseen  world  monsters  of  most  malignant  charac- 
ter. These  creations  of  unholy  passion  are  inflamed  and  con- 
trolled by  lustful  cravings  that  nothing  will  appease.  Crea- 
tions of  inharmonious  and  perverted  thought,  formed  by  a 
mind  governed  by  unrestrained  passion,  and  depending  on  the 
over-flow  of  human  life  to  sustain  their  consciousness*  and  to 
gain  power,  these  creatures  become  vampires  haunting  the 
borderland  in  order  to  prey  upon  humanity.  They  know  no 
distinction  of  persons,  no  one  is  free  from  their  baneful  pres- 
ence. They  haunt  the  chambers  of  the  pure  as  well  as  those 
of  the  impure,  but  prefer  the  impure,  because  the  depraved 
are  more  in  sympathy  with  themselves:  no  one,  however,  U  en- 
tirely.-free  from  their  evil  influence.  .They  delight  in  darkness 
and  sin,  and  prey  upon  their  unconscious  victims  during  both 
the  waking  and  sleeping  state.  During  sleep  they  reHect  the 
most  depraved  and  lustful  thoughts  upon  the  mind,  causing 
dreams  of  such  a  nature  that  the  dreamer  louses  the  .divine, 
Life  creating,  and  life-sustaining  substance  while  he  is  uncon- 
scious, and  therefore  unable  to  protect  himself. 

Physicians,  parents,  priests,  and  scientists,  who  should  be 
true  advisers  and  spiritual  guides,  delude  humanity  with  the 
idea  that  the  loss  of  the  vital  fiuid  is  not  only  necessary  to 
health,  but  conducive  to  mental  strength  as  well.  They  claim 

*Many  will  question  this  assertion,  but  from  personal  observation  the  author;i.s 
roiiviucecl  that  the  human  elemental  does  depend  upon  human  life  to  perpetuate 
its  consciousness. 


30  THE    KOAD    TO    1MMORTALI  TV. 

that  loss  of  the  seminal  fluid  during  sleep  cannot  be  controlled, 
that  it  is  nature's  method  of  relieving  the  system  of  the  surplus 
accumulation  of  life,  which  otherwise  would  produce  disease  and 
seriously  affect  the  organism.  Such  ideas  are  not  only  repul- 
sive to  the  finer  instincts  of  man,  but  are  erroneous  in  the  ex- 
treme. This  perverted  and  unnatural  belief,  so  prevalent  among 
the  masses,  and  the  criminal  neglect  on  the  part  of  parents, 
who  refuse,  through  false  modesty,  to  impart  the  needed  in- 
structions to  their  offspring,  has  produced  a  most  deplorable 
state  of  morals  in  the  social  world;  such  a  state,  in  fact,  as 
makes  it  almost  impossible  for  the  spiritual  man  to  exist  on 
earth  at  the  present  time,  and  tens  of  thousands  of  the  fairest, 
purest,  and  most  spiritual,  the  choicest  flowers  that  God  has 
planted  in  this  world  of  matter,  early  fade  and  die,  simply  be- 
cause they  cannot  live  in  the  hotbed  of  vice  which  it  has  be- 
come. These  beautiful  souls,  who  so  early  pass  from  the  trials 
and  sorrows  of  earth  life, are  true  saviors.  Could  they  live  and 
mature,  could  their  holy  thoughts  and  aspirations  find  lodg- 
ment in  the  hearts  of  men,  a  great  change  would  soon  take 
place;  men  would  quickly  learn  that  the  ways  of  God  lead  to 
happiness  and  joy,  that  the  tree  of  knowledge  does  indeed 
bring  forth  immortal  fruit,  does  indeed  impart  wisdom  and  un- 
derstanding to  all  who,  through  purity  of  desire,  are  enabled 
to  eat  of  it. 

As  our  earth  grows  older,  sin,  sorrow,  and  unrest  increase, 
until  there  is  scarcely  a  contented  and  thoroughly  happy  indi- 
vidual to  be  found.  There  must  be  a  cause  for  this,  otherwise 
such  conditions  would  not  exist;  and  the  cause  undoubtedly  lies 
in  the  fact  that  the  distorted  condition  of  mind,  caused  by  a 
depraved  and  uncontrolled  use  of  the  sex  nature,  has  forced 
man  from  the  path  marked  out  for  him  by  our  all-wise  and 
loving  Creator.  He  has  wandered  so  far  from  the  true  path 
that  he  has  lost  sight  of  the  the  purpose  for  which  he  was  cre- 
ated. He  has  become  so  thoroughly  steeped  in  the  material 
elements  of  earth  that  he  has  forgotten,  or,  if  he  has  not  for- 


THE    KOAI>    TO    IMMORTALITY.  31 

gotten,  he  is  unable  to  use,  his  spiritual  powers.  These  powers 
are,  however,  still  latent  within,  dud  can  be  again  used,  as  they 
were  before  the  fall  of  man  when  Adam  walked  and  talked  with 
God.  As  man  was  created  in  order  that  he  might  be  the  means 
through  which  the  Creator  could  manifest  his  wondrous  power 
and  love,  and  as  man  has  gained  sufficient  knowledge  to  enable 
him  to  do  this,  the  present  condition  of  disease  and  consequent 
unrest  can  exist  but  a  short  time  longer. 

Man  was  permitted  to  fall  from  the  high  spiritual  state  in 
which  he  once  existed,  in  order  that  he  might  have  knowledge 
requisite  to  command  the  principalities  and  powers  of  the  uni- 
verse. He  has  now  gained  sufficient  soul  powers  to  do  this; 
although,  at  present,  they  lay  dormant,  awaiting  the  inflow  of 
divine  love  to  quicken  them  to  action.  These  powers  will 
quickly  spring  into  manifestation,  however,  when  the  earthly 
tabernacle  has  been  cleansed,  freed  from  those  evils  which  sap, 
and  eventually  destroy,  the  higher  faculties.  Those  who  are 
striving  after  an  immortal  existence,  will  find  that  a  task  ap- 
palling to  a  Hercules  is  before  them,  when  they  thus  try  to 
cleanse  the  tabernacle.  As  they  begin  to  inspire  the  elements 
of  spirit  they  will  become  conscious  that  the  depraved  state  of 
the  human  mind  has  produced  such  gross  conditions  in  the  at- 
mosphere, that  only  the  most  depraved  and  vicious  can  exist 
with  any  degree  of  comfort  and  happiness.  The  spiritual  man 
or  woman  will  soon  realize  that,  if  he  or  she  would  worship 
God  after  the  dictates  of  the  heart,  there  is  no  place  on  earth 
in  which  to  do  so,  no  atmosphere  that  is  untainted  with  the 
lustful  emanations  of  a  sinful  people,  apparently  no  sphere  of 
mind  from  which  to  draw  pure  and  holy  thought. 

The  man  who  is  beginning  to  overcome  his  lower  nature,  and 
who  realizes  that  he  is  living  in  and  surrounded  by  impure  and 
baneful  influences,  must  not  despair  and  return  to  the  old  con- 
dition;  there  is  a  sphere  from  which  to  breathe,  as  well  as  a 
realm  of  thought  as  pure  as  when  it  was  created  by  our  Father, 
who  knows  perfectly  the  needs  of  his  children;  there  is  a  relain 


32  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

of  mind  and  life-sustaining  elements  that  the  lustful  thoughts 
and  desires  of  man  cannot  penetrate,.  All  may  reach  this 
realm,  and,  by  the  powers  of  God  unfolded  within  them, 
they  may  draw  therefrom,  not  only  pure  and  immortal  life 
qualities,  but  elements  of  mind  which  will  illuminate  the  brain 
to  such  a  degree  of  intensity  that  the  thoughts  created  no 
longer  partake  of  the  crude,  uncertain  form  of  a  material  ex- 
istence, but,  being  clothed  in  elements  unde filed,  are  robed  in 
the  spiritual  garment  of  truth.  It  takes  a  strong  and  deter- 
mined effort,  together  with  an  intense  yearning  of  the  interior, 
on  the  part  of  the  seeker  after  truth,  if  he  would  know  God,  if 
he  would  reach  beyond  the  environments  of  earth  and  draw, 
from  the  fountains  of  divine,  immortal  life,  the  pure  elements 
needed  to  sustain  and  nourish  the  spiritual  man,  the  human  be- 
ing who  has  become  the  divine  son  of  God. 

In  the  ages  that  have  long  since  faded  from  the  minds  of  men, 
when  our  earth  was  young  and  undefiled  by  the  base  passions  of 
animal  humanity,  the  way  to  the  higher  realms,  "was  broad  and 
free  from  trial,  and  brought  immortal  fruit;  but  when  Adam 
fell,  the  way  became  narrow  and  full  of  dangers."  It  is  very 
different  in  our  age,  as  the  seeker  after  an  immortal  existence 
will  realize  before  he  has  gone  far.  The  monsters  that  have 
been  created  by  man, — man  as  an  individual  and  as  a  race, — 
the  spirits  that  control  the  elements,  as  well  as  those  that  h'nd 
a  home  within  the  individual,  must  be  met,  and  conquered  by 
him.  The  misshapen  entities  which  live  in  the  borderland  sepa- 
rating the  two  worlds,  must  be  made-servants  to  your  will,  my 
reader,  before  they  will  permit  yon  to  pass  beyond  their  kingdom. 
The  creative  word,  the  spirit  that  controls  generation  in  all  its 
varied  forms,  and  compels  all  nature  to  reproduce  each  after 
its  kind,  must  be  made  obedient  to  your  command.  This  is 
not  possible  until  the  likeness  of  the  Father  manifests  itself  in 
you.  You  must  be  proven  and  tried  to  your  utmost  capacity 
of  endurance;  you  must  wrestle  with  the  god  of  nature  (The 
Elohirn),  even  as  Jacob  the  patriarch  of  old  did.  And  when 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  33 

you  realize,  as  he  did,  that  you  are  indeed  a  conqueror,  you 
will  comprehend  many  of  the  mysteries  veiled  from  sinful  man, 
and  will  understand  that  Jacob's  vision  was  not  a  creation  of 
his  imagination,  for  the  angels  of  the  Lord  will  descend  and 
bless  you  as  they  did  him.  They  will  feed  you  with  the  heav- 
enly manna,  of  which  the  mortal  un regenerated  man  can  know 
nothing. 

The  Herculean  task  which  lies  before  all  those  who  would 
gain  immortality  would  be  utterly  impossible  of  accomplishment 
by  mortal  man,  were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  God  has  promised 
that  if  you  dedicate  your  life  to  him,  you  will  be  his  sons,  and 
he  will  be  your  strength.  A  dedication  of  your  life  to  God  and 
a  renunciation  of  self,  is  absolutely  necessary  to  a  realization  of 
this  promise.  "Ye  shall  have  no  other  power  beside  me,"  was 
the  command  of  God  to  ancient  Israel,  and,  in  so  far  as  they 
kept  the  covenant,  he  was  indeed  their  strength.  Other  gods 
and  powers  beside  the  God  of  creation  have  heretofore  ruled 
your  lives.  If  you  would  become  immortal,  you  must  refuse  to 
serve  the  powers  of  evil;  your  trust  iniigt  no  longer  be  in  man, 
in  the  gods  of  gold  and  silver,  but  in  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  all, 
our  hope  and  our  strength. 

The  seeker  after  immortality,  after  the  dedication  to  God  has 
been  determined  upon,  must  live  a  life  of  absolute  purity,  a  life 
of  celibacy;  nay,  more,  a  life  of  absolute  continency.  a  life  free 
from  every  desire  for  sense  gratification  of  any  name  or  nature. 
He  has  entered  the  eternal  sabbath  ami  must  cease  from  the 
work  of  creation. — generation, — as  did  God  when  he  finished 
his  labors.  Without  a -single  reservation,  he  must  fully  deter- 
mine in  the  interior  that  all  the  life  gathered  shall  be  wholly 
devoted  to  the  use  of  the  body  and  mind.  He  must  dedicate 
that  life  to  the  higher  uses  of  spiritual  unfoldment,  and,  by 
constant  prayer  and  holy  desire,  so  impregnate  his  entire  be- 
ing with  holy  and  righteous  thought,  that  he  may  become  filled 
with  spiritual  light  and  power.  The  monsters,  the  creations  of 
a  mind  governed  by  lust,  dread  the  light,  and  cannot  approach 


34  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

or  torment  the  individual  who  is  consecrated  to  God  and  has 
become  illuminated  by  the  inflow  of  the  diviner  elements  of 
spirit.  **For  thou  wilt  light  my  candle:  the  Lord  my  God  will 
enlighten  my  darkness."  Psalms  xvm.  28. 

Beginners  will  find  great  difficulty  in  conserving  all  the  life 
gathered;  many  years  of  constant  effort  are  frequently  required 
to  accomplish  the  desired  results.  But  the  waste  of  life  must 
be  controlled,  otherwise  immortality  is  impossible.  Constant 
vigilance  and  unyielding  determination  must  be  ever  active; 
you  must  continually  remain  in  the  watch  tower.  Refuse  to 
allow  impure  thoughts  to  find  a  lodgment  in  the  mind.  Your 
desires  must  be  entirely  free  from  all  those  things  which,  in  any 
way,  ally  you  to  the  world  of  generation.  Your  association 
with  the  opposite  sex  must  be  of  such  a  character  as  to  pre- 
clude all  desire  for  carnal  relation.  You  must  avoid  those  who 
are  impure  in  thought,  word,  or  act.  If  the  presence  of  any  person 
causes  you  to  have  unholy  desires,  avoid  that  person  as  you  would 
a  pestilence.  Do  not  lose  sight  of  the  fact  that  you  can  commit 
adultery  in  thought  as  well  as  act.  "Sing,  O  barren,  thou  that 
didst  not  bear;  break  forth  into  singing,  and  cry  aloud,  thou 
that  didst  not  travail  with  child:  for  more  are  the  children  of 
the  desolate  than  the  children  of  the  married  wife,  saith  the 
Lord."  Isa.  Liv.l.  The  waking  thoughts  follow  man  into  the 
dream  state,  and  if  he  indulges  in  impure  thoughts,  they  will 
cause  dreams  that  will  bring  regrets  and  disappointment. 

The  mind  governs  the  physical  body  in  the  sleeping  as  it  does 
in  the  waking  state.  If  it  is  unhampered  by  astral  influences 
or  other  causes,  it  will  guard  the  body  a'nd  prevent  loss  of  the 
vital  fluid,  as  the  sleeping  as  well  as  the  waking  consciousness 
obeys  only  the  promptings  of  the  Spirit  to  whom  the  individual 
has  dedicated  his  life.  You  must  not  depend  upon  the  Spirit  to 
overcome  for  you;  if  you  do  so,  you  will  surely  be  disappointed. 
You  must  overcome  for  yourself,  by  your  own  strength;  the 
Spirit  supplies  power  only  when  you  have  done  your  utmost  to 
overcome.  It  is  an  easy  matter  to  control  the  life  fluids  while 


THK    ROAD    TO    I M MORTALITY.  35 

the  body  is  active  and  all  the  faculties  are  on  the  alert;  but 
during  sleep,  when  the  faculties  are  passive,  the  great  difficulty 
arises.  The  soul  never  sleeps;  and,  if  you  would  control  the 
body  during  the  hours  of  rest,  you  should,  when  retiring,  im- 
press upon  the  soul  by  means  of  auto-suggestion  the  imperative 
necessity  of  remaining  with  the  body  to  protect  it.  The  sub- 
jective consciousness,  the  soul,  obeys  the  mandate  of  the  object- 
ive consciousness,  the  mind,  if  the  will  is  sufficiently  strong  to 
enforce  obedience.  If  the  will  be  kept  active  by  persistent  ef- 
fort, it  will  in  time  grow  strong  enough  to  accomplish  this  pur- 
pose. As  the  energies  are  stored,  and  as  the  mental  and  phys- 
ical body  becomes  refined,  the  dead,  unconscious  sleep  gradu- 
ally ceases.  As  man  becomes  conscious  of  his  spiritual  nature, 
he  loses  all  desire  for  unconscious  sleep;  when  he  lays  the  body 
down  to  rest,  he  passes  from  a  lower  state  of  consciousness  to  a 
higher,  but  he  never  permits  the  action  of  the  interior  mind  to 
cease.  You  must  strive  by  all  the  methods  at  your  command 
to  cease  from  that  sleep  which  is  death.  When  you  retire  at 
night,  after  you  have  impressed  the  soul  with  the  command  "Be 
watchful,"  commence  a  line  of  thought,  and  endeavor,  with  the 
interior  mind,  to  hold  to  it  without  wavering.  Your  first  at- 
tempt may  not  lie  entirely  successful;  after  some  months,  how- 
ever, jf  you  are  persistent  and  are  able  to  conserve  the  vital 
fluids,  you  will  notice  a  gradual  change,  hardly  perceptible  at 
first,  but,  if  you  hold  fast  to  your  purpose,  complete  success 
will  crown  vour  efforts.  When  yon  have  overcome  the  old  un- 
conscious sleep,  you  will  have  developed  the  ability  to  perceive 
and  understand  the  mysteries  of  the  soul  realm.  As  the  sub- 
ject of  sleep  is  a  very  important  one,  we  will  elaborate  upon 
it  further  on. 

The  student  who  does  not  at  first  succeed  in  retaining  the 
vital  fluids,  must  not  be  discouraged.  If  failures  occur,  there 
is  still  some  mental  reservation,  some  desire  for  sense  gratifica- 
tion, remaining  hidden  in  some  recess  of  the  mind.  Search  dili- 
gently, until  the  difficulty  has  been  found  and  cast  out.  The 


36  THE    KOAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

dominion  can  never  be  obtained  until  all  desire  for  sense  grati- 
fication has  been  destroyed.  The  dominion  over  the  monsters 
who  haunt  your  chamber  will  never  be  gained  until  the  mind 
is  in  perfect  accord  with  the  purpose  of  the  higher  self,  which 
is  complete  emancipation  from  all  carnal  lusts  and  desires.  As 
man  succeeds  in  transmuting  the  vital  fluids,  his  consciousness 
increases,  and  the  organism  becomes  more  receptive  to  spiritual 
impressions;  his  in  tui  tonal,  or  interior  powers  increase  to  a 
marvelous  degree,  until,  as  time  rolls  on,  his  exterior  and  in- 
terior consciousness  become  one.  When  the  union  of  the  higher 
and  lower  self  takes  place,  you  will  have  a  consciousness  that 
rests  not  day  nor  night,  but  ever  increases  in  its  power  of  ac- 
tion and  continually  draws  you  closer  to  God,  until  eventually 
you  can  truly  say,  as  did  our  Lord,  k>I  and  my  Father  are  one," 
which  is  the  ultimate  destiny  of  all  men. 

In   strivin      to   overcome  all    waste  of   the   vital   fluid. 


must  be  ever  on  his  guard  against  doing  those  things  that  will 
weaken  the  normal  action  of  the  organs  of  sex.  The  idea  is, 
not  to  destroy  or  weaken  in  any  way,  but  to  build  up  and 
strengthen.  The  normal  activity  of  the  sex,  especially  in  the 
early  morning  hours,  is  caused  by  the  fires  that  are  transmut- 
ing the  gross  matt-rial  substance  to  finer  and  more  spiritual 
ones.  This  activity  must  not  be  suppressed,  nature  must  not 
be  interfered  with  in  her  endeavors  to  work  iu  harmony  with 
God's  laws.  While  the  fires  of  transmutation  are  active,  the 
mind  should  be  not  only  absolutely  free  from  lustful  thoughts, 
but,  in  loving  aspiration  and  with  the  soul  open  to  receive  the 
inflow  of  his  Spirit,  it  should  be  centralized  on  God,  the  source 
of  all  life  and  power.  At  this  time,  if  the  right  attitude  of 
mind  be  held,  the  fires  of  God  will  descend  and  fill  the  individ- 
ual with  love  and  peace.  These  fires  consume  the  dross,  leav- 
ing only  the  purer  elements,  which  strengthen  and  enrich  the 
blood,  illuminate  the  intellect,  and  truly  give  man  access  to  the 
fountains  of  living  waters,  that  wash  away  all  taint  of  death 
and  decay.  This  inflow  of  divine  fire  is  the  true  elixir  of  life, 


THK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  37 

sought  for  by  many,  but  gained  by  only  the  few  exalted,  illu- 
minated seers  who  have  willingly  surrendered  the  vanities  and 
delusions  of  earth  life,  in  order  that  they  may  be  worthy  to  en- 
ter the  kingdom  of  God,  where  alone  will  be  found  the  bread 
of  life  which  endows  man  with  not  only  an  immortal  conscious- 
ness, but  with  knowledge  enabling  him  to  fathom  mysteries 
wisely  hidden  from  all  those  who  are  controlled  by  depraved 
and  soul-destroying  sense  desires. 


CHAPTER  IV. 


STEPS    OF    ATTAINMENT. 

It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  each  individual  is  endowed 
with  characteristics  and  requirements  peculiarly  his  own;  there- 
fore in  their  practical  application,  these  instructions  may, be 
modified  to  suit  the  needs  of  the  student.  The  writer  has  pre- 
sented only  such  methods  as  have  been  successfully  applied 
by  his  associates  and  which  he  has  found  adapted  to  his  own 
peculiar  requirements.  In  order  to  obtain  the  most  speedy  and 
lasting  results,  the  student  should  make  a  careful  study  of  his 
individual  needs.  If  he  does  so,  he  will  soon  be  able  to  mark 
out  for  himself  the  course  of  life  best  adapted  to  hasten  the  un- 
foldment  of  the  powers  of  his  soul;  and,  as  he  advances,  he  will 
be  able  to  make  such  changes  in  these  methods  as  will  suit  the 
requirements  of  his  individual  organism.  He  should  be  care- 
ful, however,  not  to  develop  one  side  of  his  nature  at  the  ex- 
pense of  another;  in  order  to  be  practical  man  must  have  all 
sides  of  his  nature  equally  unfolded,  therefore  great  care  should 
be  exercised,  or  evil  results  may  follow  the  application  of  these 
methods.  Be  sure  not  to  misinterpret  our  words,  as  many  will 
do.  If  we  advise  the  "conservation  of  the  life,"  we  mean  ab- 
solute conservation.  If  we  recommend  total  renunciation  of 
the  "material  things  of  earth,"  we  wish  you  to  understand  us 
as  meaning  that  it  must  be  done  without  a  single  reservation. 
Many  believe  that  they  are  living  the  life  of  regeneration,  when 
they  are  far  from  doing  so.  Such  will  never  obtain  the  results 
promised.  The  fault  lies  with  the  individual  and  not  with  the 
methods  of  life  recommended.  Remember  the  words  of  Jesus: 
f  "No  man  can  serve  two  masters:  *  ye  cannot  serve 

God  and  mammon/" 

The  character  of  the  perfect  man  is  so  well   balanced   in   its 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  39 

unfoldmeiit  that  all  sides  of  his  nature  work  tog-ether  without 
friction,  in  complete  harmony  with  the  design  of  God.  Unless 
this  condition  obtains,  immortality  is  impossible;  the  Spirit  will 
be  unable  to  express  its  divine  likeness.  The  man  who  would 
obtain  and  retain  perfect  health,  and  consequent  happiness, 
must  have  the  physical  organism  under  perfect  control.  He 
must  be  master  in  the  house  he  occupies,  and  in  which  he  gains 
an  understanding  of  law  that  enables  him  to  become  a  creator, 
a  king,  a  son  of  God.  If  the  physical  body  is  not  under  con- 
trol of  the  higher  faculties,  unclean  spirits  will  enter  and  de- 
file this  temple  of  the  soul.  A  diseased  body  is  conclusive  evi- 
dence that  the  mind  controlling  it  is  not  working  in  harmony 
with  the  interior  man,  or  in  accordance  with  law.  The  interior 
man  will  forever  remain  earth-bound,  unless  it  awakens  to  its 
true  nature  and  requirements.  When  it  thus  awakens,  it  will 
build  a  physical  organism  that  will  be  free  from  the  possibili- 
ties of  disease  and  death,  and  through  which  it  can  express  its 
divine  power. 

Before  the  interior  man  can  gain  complete  control  over  its 
physical  organism,  it  must  realize  that  it  is  spirit,  it  must  be- 
come fully  conscious  that  the  external  body  is  only  an  instru- 
ment builded  of  material  elements  by  the  mind,  which  is  under 
direction  to  serve  the  needs  of  the  s.uil.  Such  thoughts  as  "I 
am  spirit:"  I  live  from  the  Father,  therefore  "I  am  perfect;" 
%'I  cannot  die,"  should  be  impressed  upon  the  consciousness 
until  they  are  fully  realized  in  every  Hber  of  the  being.  If 
these  thoughts  are  held  in  the  mind,  and  not  a  doubt  is  al- 
lowed to  enter,  "faith"  is  awakened  in  the  individual,  a  men- 
tal state  inherited  from  the  "word  of  God,*'  the  power  of  cre- 
ation, or  generation,  which  governs  the  life  of  the  planet  earth. 
When  an  immortal  man  determines  to  perform  certain  acts,  the 
power  of  '"faith"  enables  him  to  say,  without  fear  of  failure,  "It 
shall  be  done,"  and  the  desired  results  are  obtained.  Without 
this  inherent  power,  which  is  termed  *'faith,"  and  which  must 
not  be  confounded  with  "belief,"  man  could  not  exist  for  a  sin- 


40  THE    LtOAD    TO    IMMOUTAL1TY. 

v 

gle  moment.  When  he  reaches  the  point  where  he  realizes  that 
"he  is  one  with  the  Father,"  he  will  be  able  to  draw  the  power 
of  faith  into  his  organism  from  the  Source  of  all  power,  and  the 
measure  of  the  inspiration  will  he  limited  only  by  his  needs. 
Jesus  said,  "If  ye  have  faith  as  a  grain  of  mustard  seed,  ye 
shall  say  unto  this  mountain,  Remove  hence  to  yonder  place; 
and  it  shall  remove:  and  nothing  shall  be  impossible  unto  you." 
Matt.  XVII.  20.  The  full  meaning  of  "faith"  can  neither  be 
expressed  nor  understood  by  a  man  living  wholly  in  the  intel- 
lect. If  intellectual  man  were  able  to  understand  this  myste- 
rious, spiritual,  and  irresistible  force,  he  would  be  possessed  of 
powers  that  he  could  not  handle,  and  which  would  prove  his 
destruction;  therefore  our  Father  has,  in  his  great  wisdom,  hid- 
den it  from  the  wise  ones  of  earth,  but  will  reveal  it  to  the 
spiritual  babes  who  are  one  with  Christ.  We  can,  at  best,  only 
hope  to  lead  the  student  to  where  he  will  be  able  to  gain  through 
his  own  interior  comprehension,  an  understanding  of  this  most 
subtle  power  which  God  has  implanted  within  all.  We  can  per- 
ceive how  it  is  manifested  in  vegetable,  animal,  and  human  life, 
but  the  mysterious  law  which  governs  it  will  remain  unformu- 
lated  by  the  human  mind  until  man  reaches  the  sublime  degree 
of  spirit  consciousness.  St.  Paul  defines  faith  as  "the  substance 
of  things  hoped  for,  the  evidence  of  things  not  seen."  Hebrews 
II.  1.  Faith  has  a  part  in  all  life  upon  our  planet,  from  the 
lowest  to  the  highest.  Without  faith  the  grass  could  not  grow, 
and  man  himself,  were  he  entirely  devoid  of  faith,  would  be 
unable  to  perform  the  simplest  act,  even  to  the  moving  of  a 
muscle.  This  faith,  which  St.  Paul  wisely  terms  "the  substance 
of  things  hoped  for,"  can  be  increased  in  man,  providing  he 
dedicates  his  life  unreservedly  to  God  and  trusts  him  without 
a  doubt.  When  he  can  do  this,  he  will  be  able,  by  the  power 
of  soul  prayer,  to  draw  this  substance  into  his  organism;  and 
then  he  will  always  have  the  support  of  the  strong  arm  of  the 
Father.  He  will  no  longer  be  compelled  to  depend  upon  the 
arm  of  flesh;  his  help  and  defense  will  be  in  the  God  of  the 
universe. 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  41 

The  will  of  man  is  the  epitome  of  his  mind  force,  or  power 
of  action.  It  is  the  sum  total  of  the  strength  possessed  by 
the  mind  to  decree,  and  to  carry  to  nltimates  the  purpose  of 
that  decree.  An  unyielding  will  is  an  absolute  necessity  to 
those  who  are  striving  to  overcome  the  power  of  the  grave;  for 
without  it  they  will  be  unable  to  conquer  the  adversaries  that 
use  every  means  to  prevent  them  from  gaining  power  and  do- 
minion over  death.  These  adversaries  know  that  when  a  man 
has  become  immortal,  all  beneath  him  is  subject  to  his  desires. 
The  will  may  be  strengthened  by  continually  holding  to  the 
thought,  "I  will  succeed."  Will  to  do  only  those  things  that 
you  feel  you  have  the  power  to  accomplish;  otherwise  you  will 
weaken  instead  of  strengthen  your  will. 

Begin  the  work  of  strengthening  the  will  by  taking  complete 
control  of  the  physical  body.  Man,  being  the  epitome  of  the 
whole,  will  find  that,  when  he  has  gained  full  control  of  his 
own  organism,  he  has  gained  control  of  the  forces  outside  of 
himself.  Should  the  body  feel  dull  and  refuse  to  perform  the 
duties  assigned  to  it,  compel  it  to  do  so.  If  it  is  in  pain,  refuse 
to  be  misled;  endeavor  to  realize  in  every  fiber  of  your  being, 
that  you  are  spirit,  therefore  cannot  suffer,  and  move  steadily 
forward,  refusing  to  be  bribed  either  by  pain  or  pleasure.  If 
the  appetite  craves  food  that  you  know  will  deaden  the  sensibi- 
lities and  will  not  nourish  the  body,  refuse  to  eat  it.  Great 
discretion  must  be  used  in  the  care  of  the  body.  It  would  be 
impossible  for  us  to  specify  a  line  of  dietetics;  that  which  would 
be  ""meat  to  one,  would  be  poison  to  another."  If  wisdom  is 
used  in  the  matter  of  food, — eating  to  live,  not  living  to  eat, — 
a  normal  appetite  will  soon  be  acquired,  which  will  at  all  times 
be  a  certain  guide.  However,  we  do  recommend  abstinence 
from  spices,  tea,  coffee,  tobacco,  and  alcohol.  After  you  have 
gained  complete  control  of  the  lower  nature,  you  will  under- 
stand where  St.  Paul  stood  when  he  said,  "All  things  are  law- 
ful unto  uu3,  but  all  things  are  not  expedient:  all  things  are 
lawful  tor  me,  but  I  will  not  be  brought  under  the  power  of 


42  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

any."  I.  Cor.  vi.  12.  You  must  remember  that  in  your  strug~- 
gle  to  overcome  passion  you  will  have  all  that  you  can  possibly 
do,  therefore  you  should  avoid  all  those  things  that  will  in  any 
way  stimulate  or  increase  the  power  of  the  old  serpent.  Look 
upon  the  body  simply  as  an  animal:  attend  to  its  needs,  but 
nothing  more.  You  will  find,  after  you  have  shut  off  the  waste 
of  the  life,  that  you  require  very  little  food.  If  you  feel  the 
need  of  stimulants,  draw  what  you  require  from  the  fountain 
of  life,  to  which  you  have  free  access.  If  you  ignore  the  senses, 
and  look  upon  them  as  only  servants  given  by  an  all- wise  Cre- 
ator for  the  purpose  of  apprising  you  of  the  needs  of  the  phys- 
ical body,  you  will  quickly  develop  the  stoic,  and  be  able  to 
decide  for  yourself  as  to  both  the  amount  and  quality  of  food 
you  require. 

There  are  two  kinds  of  will, — the  will  of  energy  and  the 
will  of  stillness.  The  will  of  energy  actuates  the  physical  body 
and  enables  the  student  to  gain  control  of  external  conditions. 
The  will  of  stillness  is  the  interior  or  spiritual  will;  it  works  in 
silence  as  does  the  will  of  God.-  It  is  the  latter  will  that  en- 
ables man  to  be  a  creator,  to  command  the  forces  and  element* 
of  nature;  through  its  power  man  is  able  to  pierce  further  and 
further  into  spirit,  until  he  stands  before  the  great  white  throne, 
and  becomes  a  "pillar  in  the  temple  of  his  God."  We  see  the 
power  of  this  will  manifested  in  the  silence  of  nature;  in  the 
growing  grass,  the  budding  trees,  the  blooming  flowers.  All 
nature  lives  and  grows  under  the  command  of  this  resistless 
force.  It  would  be  well  for  the  seeker  after  truth  to  remember 
that  silence  does  much  to  unfold  the  consciousness  of  the  soul; 
i%Be  still  and  know  God/'  is  a  wise  command.  It  is  only  in  the 
stillness  of  the  soul,  in  the  sacred  center  of  being,  where  the 
flame  burns  steadily  upon  the  altar,  that  God's  presence  is  felt 
and  his  voice  heard.  The  literal  rendering  of  the  word  "sin,"' 
is  noise,  confusion;  it  therefore  follows  that,  if  man  would  grow 
in  wisdom  and  be  free  from  sin,  he  should  dwell  as  much  as- 
possible  in  silent  musing.  It  is  also  true  that  the  more  highly 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  43 

developed  the  soul,  the  greater  the  love  for  the  silence,  the 
more  intense  the  desire  to  be  free  from  the  noise  and  confusion 
of  the  world,  to  dwell  with  God  in  the  realm  of  silence.  The 
prophet  Jeremiah  advises,  "Let  us  enter  into  the  defensed  city, 
and  let  us  be  silent  there."  Jer.  vm.  14.  We  also,  dear 
reader,  advise  you  to  learn  to  be  silent,  if  you  desire  wisdom 
and  the  guidance  of  God. 

The  wills  may  be  strengthened  and  made  to  work  in  their 
specific  fields  of  service  by  the  following  drills:  In  the  seclusion 
and  silence  of  your  chamber,  quietly  sit  with  your  face  toward 
the  east,  body  erect,  and  hands  placed  lightly  upon  the  knees. 
Endeavor  to  realize  the  fact  that  you  are  in  the  life  currents  of 
the  Infinite,  to  whom  your  life  has  been  dedicated.  Let  your 
mind  go  out  to  Him  in  loving  trust  and  desire  that  your  body  may 
be  filled  with  those  qualities  of  his  life  which  are  necessary  to 
the  ultimatiqp  of  the  pin-pose  to  which  your  life  has  been  con- 
secrated. Breathe  slowly  and  regularly,  in  the  following  man- 
ner:— As  you  draw  in  the  breath,  pronounce  the  word  WILL, 
mentally,  and  as  you  exhale  the  breath,  pronounce  the  word 
STILL,  also  mentally.  As  the  breathing  is  continued  you  will 
draw  in  the  qualities  of  life  you  require,  it  being  a  law  that  we 
always  draw  to  us  those  things  which  we  truly  desire  from  the 
soul.  This  manner  of  sitting  and  breathing  makes  you  recep- 
tive to  the  inflow  of  divine  life.  Sit  for  at  least  fifteen  minutes 
daily;  thirty  minutes  would  be  better,  but  in  the  beginning  the 
student  is  apt  to  relax  his  vigilance,  and  under  such  circum- 
stances evil  results  may  follow.  Be  careful  not  to  fall  asleep 
during  your  time  of  sitting,  as  to  do  so  places  you  in  danger  of 
being  obsessed  by  those  adversaries  who  are  drawn  to  you  at 
this  time,  and  who  will  endeavor  to  turn  you  from  your  pur- 
pose. Be  negative  to  the  mind  and  will  of  God,  and  positive 
to  all  other  influences.  Sit  for  a  purpose,  clear  and  well  de- 
fined. Should  visions  of  any  character  come  before  the  mind, 
set  them  aside;  one  thing  at  a  time  should  be  an  unfailing  rule. 

The  masters, — those   who   have   become   immortal,  apd    who 


44  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

have  passed  beyond  physical  environments,  are  the  only  ones 
recognized  by  the  writer  as  masters, — will  always  render  assist- 
ance to  those  who  are  endeavoring  to  strengthen  the  will  by 
lawful  methods  and  for  a  wise  purpose.  The  student  who  de- 
sires help  from  these  wise  and  holy  men  should  remember  that 
egotism  is  not  will.  The  line  between  the  consciousness  of  your 
superior  endowments — gained  by  living  a  life  of  renunciation 
and  regeneration — and  egotism,  is  so  narrow  that  few  have  the 
power  of  discrimination  sufficiently  developed  to  define  it.  It 
is  right  and  proper  for  you  to  recognize  your  divine  sonship, 
but  you  should  at  the  same  time  remember  that  you  are  still  a 
babe,  still  swayed  by  the  passions,  still  human,  still  under  the 
law  of  sin  and  death.  To  rise  above  that  law  you  must  always 
hold  the  spirit  of  love  and  charity  toward  all  God's  creatures. 
Should  you  imagine  that  you  are  specially  favored  of  God  be- 
cause of  your  personality,  you  will  retard  your  advancement; 
and  should  you  hold  to  this  error,  you  will  fall,  never  to  rise 
again  in  this  incarnation — "God  is  no  respecter  of  persons. 'T 
As  you  continue  to  live  in  harmony  with  the  expressed  purpose 
of  the  Father,  and  to  develop  the  diviner  principles,  you  will 
draw  closer  to  him,  and  be  better  able  to  express  diviner  attri- 
butes than  can  those  who  have  not  the  soul  unfoldment  that 
you  possess;  but  at  the  same  time  remember  that  the  spirit 
which  animates  all  men  is  equal;  that  all,  in  time,  will  reach 
oneness  with  God,  and  will,  therefore,  become  the  perfect  ex- 
pression of  principles.  It  is  man's  nearness  to  God,  which 
alone  makes  him  superior  to  his  fellows.  If  you  are  superior 
your  life  will  be  marked  by  deeds  of  charity  and  love,  unselfish 
acts,  and  freedom  from  those  vices  which  benumb  the  higher 
faculties.  Never  use  the  power  of  your  will  to  control  the  ac- 
tions of  another;  to  do  so  is  to  commit  one  of  the  worst  crimes 
possible  to  imagine.  God  has  given  every  man  the  right  to  the 
unrestrained  use  of  his  mentality,  and  should  you  in  any  way 
endeavor  to  control  the  mind  of  one  of  God's  children,  sad  in- 
deed will  be  your  end.  Divine  justice  will  sooner  or  later  deal 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  45 

with  you  as  you  deal  with  others.  Let  your  life  at  all  times  be 
marked  by  simplicity  of  character,  and  pure  and  holy  acts. 
Learn  to  love  your  neighbor  as  yourself;  but  love  the  personal- 
ity of  no  man.  If  you  love  the  personality  of  another,  you 
draw  to  yourself,  through  sympathy,  the  evils  that  rule  and 
bind  that  one  to  earth. 

Our  Lord  and  Master,  Jesus,  said,  "If  any  man  come  to  me, 
and  hate  not  his  father,  and  mother,  and  wife,  and  children, 
and  brethren,  and  sisters,  yea,  and  his  own  life  also,  he  cannot 
be  my  disciple."  St.  Luke  XIV.  26.  This  is  a  statement  from 
the  highest  authority,  whose  language  is  unmistakably  plain  and 
emphatic.  It  shows,  without  a  shadow  of  a  doubt,  the  attitude 
of  mind  required  by  all  who  would  obtain  discipleship  of  Christ. 
The  word  "hate,"  used  in  this  connection,  means  to  repel,  and 
is  not  to  be  accepted  in  the  sense  of  desiring  that  evil  befall  those 
with  whom  we  associate.  God  never  commands  his  children  to 
direct  an  evil  wish  or  an  evil  thought  toward  a  fellow-man,  but 
he  does  command  all  who  would  attain  to  "his  likeness"  to  repel 
those  things  which  in  any  way  hinder  the  u  of  old  men  t  of  a 
spiritual  consciousness.  If  we  do  not  repel  the  evils  active  in 
those  we  have  loved,  we  will  remain  one  with  the  great  body  of 
humanity,  we  will  never  be  able  to  withdraw  from  it,  which  we 
must  do  if  we  would  obtain  righteousness  and  freedom  from 
the  flesh. 

Each  one  who  travels  the  way  of  righteousness  must  indeed 
realize  that  "he  is  despised  and  rejected  of  men;  a  man  of  sor- 
rows, ami  acquainted  with  grief"  (Isa.  LIU.  3),  for  this  road  is  so 
narrow  that  but  one  can  go  that  way  at  a  time,  i  le  who  endeavors 
to  take  another  with  him,  entails  upon  himself  insurmountable 
difficulties:  sooner  or  later  he  will  realize  that  his  responsibili- 
ties are  greater  than  he  can  possibly  bear,  and  he  will  be  forced 
to  relinquish  his  burden  and  proceed  alone.  Far  better  is  it  to 
leave  the  burden  behind  in  the  beginning,  than  to  carry  it  fur 
a  time,  and  then  find  that  he  has  undertaken  more  than  he  can 
hope  to  accomplish.  This  life — while  in  the  beginning  very 


46  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

difficult  and  full  of  sorrow,  by  reason  of  breaking  away  front 
the  old  ties  and  associations — is,  nevertheless,  productive  of 
many  sacred  and  holy  joys  and  pleasures,  unknown  to  the  lust- 
ful sons  of  men.  As  you  be^'in  to  recognize  a  spirit  conscious- 
ness, you  will  realize  that  the  angel  world  is  drawing  closer 
and  closer  to  you;  and  if  you  persist,  and  desire  knowledge  for 
the  sole  purpose  of  assisting  humanity,  an  angel  will  walk  be- 
side you  to  guide  and  instruct,  to  shed  the  light  of  his  presence 
around  you,  and  to  illuminate  your  pathway.  If  you  labor  un- 
selfishly you  cannot  go  astray.  Isaiah  the  prophet  of  God  tells 
us,  "Yahveh  shall  guide  thee  continually,  and  satisfy  thy  soul 
in  drought,  and  make  fat  thy  bones:  and  thou  shalt  be  like  a 
watered  garden,  and  like  a  spring  of  water,  whose  waters  fail 
not."  Isaiah  LVin.  11.  The  angel  that  Yahveh  sends  to  you, 
will  point  out  the  pitfalls  in  your  path  and  all  the  dangers  that 
menace  you.  However,  do  not  endeavor  to  lean  for  support 
upon,  or  expect  strength  from,  this  heavenly  guide;  you  must 
learn  to  stand  alone,  learn  to  depend  upon  the  power  of  God 
to  strengthen  and  support.  When  you  have  done  the  best  you 
possibly  can,  then  look  for  help — not  before.  '  The  presence  of 
the  guiding  spirit  is  very  real  to  some;  to  others  the  guidance 
comes  as  the  "silent  voice  speaking  within;"  to  yet  others  it  is- 
revealed  through  the  illumination  of  the  mind,  each  one  receiv- 
ing according  to  his  needs  and  in  the  way  necessary  to  his  pe- 
culiar requirements. 

The  guidance  of  the  Spirit  will  continue  with,  and  will  re- 
veal itself  according  to  the  need  of  the  student,  until  he  passes 
through  the  first  three  Degrees  (of  which  there  are  seven)  of 
his  attainment,  and  has  entered  well  into  the  Fourth.  After 
the  student  has  passed  into  the  Fourth  Degree,  the  guidance 
gradually  withdraws,  leaving  him  apparently  alone,  with  no 
light  from  the  Spirit.  The  first  three  Degrees  mark  the  child- 
hood of  the  student;  they  are  Degrees  of  preparation.  When 
he  enters  the  Fourth  he  is  nearing  manhood,  and  must  hence- 
forth pass  onward  alone,  depending  for  guidance  upon  the 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  47 

• 

spiritual  consciousness  that  be  has  developed,  and  living  by  the 
light  of  the  knowledge  gained  in  the  previous  Degrees.  In 
this  Degree  his  strength  and  fortitude  are  tested  to  the  utmost, 
in  order  that  his  abilities  and  powers  may  be  proven.  If  he  is 
found  worthy,  and  his  dedication  to  God  has  been  complete 
as  far  as  he  is  able  to  comprehend  it,  preparation  is  made  to 
admit  him  into  the  Royal  Fifth.  The  Fifth  Degree  is  the  en- 
trance, as  it  were,  to  the  world  of  cause.  It  is  the  Degree  of 
the  Nazarite,  or  rather  the  entrance  to  that  sublime  degree, — 
the  Sixth.  The  promise  made  by  the  angel  to  the  neophyte 
of  the  Sixth  Degree  is  this:  "Him  that  overcometh  will  I  make 
a  pillar  in  the  temple  of  my  God,  and  he  shall  go  no  more  out: 
and  I  will  write  upon  him  the  name  of  my  God,  and  the  name 
of  the  city  of  my  God,  which  is  new  Jerusalem,  which  corneth 
down  out  of  heaven  from  my  God:  and  I  will  write  upon  him 
my  new  name."  Rev.  in.  12.  To  he  a  Nazarite  the  student 
must  be  entirely  separate  from  the  world,  and  sanctified  or 
made  holy  by  the. Spirit;  and  this  condition  cannot  possibly 
obtain  until  the  Celestial  Sixth  has  been  reached,  as  no  man 
can  dedicate  himself,  body,  soul,  and  spirit,  to  God  until  he 
has  been  completely  sepa rated  from  all  the  ties  of  earth,  until 
he  has  become  an  immortal.  In  the  Fifth  Degree  man  becomes 
clothed  witli  the  spotless  garments  of  everlasting  youth.  When 
IK-  enters  this  Degree  he  is  admitted  to  the  spiritual  temple,  he 
meets  the  holy  ones  face  to  face,  and  becomes  a  co-worker  with 
them.  I  le  now  understands  that  his  elder  brother  Jesus  Christ 
did  not  come  to  earth  to  save  the  souls  of  men;  but  to  point 
out  the  way  whereby  the  physical  body  could  be  freed  from  the 
taint  of  sin,  which  is  death,  and  made  immortal,  through  be- 
coming subservient  to  the  spirit  within.  This  knowledge  led 
the  apostle  to  exclaim,  "Death  is  swallowed  up  in  victory." 

The  entrance  to  the  Temple  of  Wisdom  is  at  the  end  of  a 
dark  and  fearful  passage  leading  from  the  Fourth  Degree. 
When  the  student  reaches  this  dark  passage,  he  is  prepared 
for  death.  If  he  enters,  he  can  never  return,  never  again  labor 


48  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

» 

with  the  sons  of  earth,  as  one  with  them;  he  is  dead  to  the 
world — as  literally  as  if  he  were  laid  in  the  grave,  and  the 
only  hope  remaining  for  him  is  to  press  onward  until  he  reaches 
the  far  end  and  enters  the  Temple,  never  again  to  return  to 
his  labors  as  a  mortal,  but  as  an  immortal — or,  at  least,  the 
possibilities  of  immortality  are  within  his  grasp.  Should  he, 
for  any  cause  whatsoever,  fail  to  pass  the  ordeal  which  he 
meets  in  the  dark  and  narrow  corridor,  he  will  be  deprived  of 
his  physical  body,  and  be  forced  to  enter  the  realm  of  souls, 
there  to  remain  until  another  opportunity  presents  itself  to  him. 
The  dangers  and  trials  to  be  met  in  the  Fourth  Degree  are  of 
such  a  character  that  no  one  could  possibly  describe  them;  it 
is  only  necessary  to  say,  that  all  will  be  tried  wherein  they  are 
weakest.  Therefore  be  admonished,  and  by  a  life  of  true  self- 
sacrifice  and  pure  and  holy  desires,  strengthen  every  link  of 
your  armor.  Above  all,  do  not  allow  the  yearning  of  the  love 
nature  to  mislead  you  into  forming  an  alliance  with  the  oppo- 
site sex.  Many  men,  personally  known  to  the  writer,  have  be- 
come hopelessly  lost  through  the  lack  of  power  to  control  their 
love  nature. 

in  the  dark  passage  man  enters  the  Hall  of  Judgment  where 
the  good  and  evil  deeds  of  the  past  are  summed  up  and  brought 
before  him,  to  be  judged  by  him.  At  some  period  of  his  soul's 
unfoldment  the  student  will  realize  that  God  judges  no  man, 
but  that  every  man  is  a  judge  unto  himself.  If  the  good  and 
evil  deeds  balance,  if  the  ego  has  become  submissive  to  the 
higher  attributes  of  spirit,  if  the  heart  has  become  pure  and 
free  from  unholy  desires,  if  the  soul  has  been  purified  by  having 
passed  through  the  fires,  and  if  the  entire  nature  has  become 
attuned  to  the  vibrations  of  spirit,  the  sins  are  all  wiped  out, — 
man  passes  onward,  a  new  and  higher  spiritual  being.  Should 
egotism  blind  the  eyes  of  the  soul,  or  love  of  praise  or  fear  of 
blame  be  still  active  in  the  breast,  man  will  find  himself  in  ab- 
solute darkness,  and  if  he  does  not  repent,  death  comes  to  him 
in  an  unexpected  way.  If  all  love  of  earth,  all  desires  for  pleas- 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  49 

ure  are  eradicated,  the  student  truly  dies  to  all  material  condi- 
tions, and  receives  the  baptism  of  the  Spirit  which  gives  him 
immortality,  age-lasting  life.  When  the  fullness  of  the  Fifth 
Degree  has  been  reached,  man  will  find  himself  in  the  realm  of 
causation  and  able  to  command  the  conditions  necessary  to  his 
welfare. 

In  the  Fifth  Degree  the  power  of  the  silent  will,  the  will  of 
stillness,  begins  to  be  manifest.  Previous  to  this  time  the  neo- 
phyte has  been  the  warrior,  the  positive  overcomer  of  material 
conditions.  He  has  been  moving  steadily  forward  conquering, 
little  by  little,  the  evils,  inherited  and  acquired,  which  belong 
to  the  lower  nature.  He  has  been  building  conditions  in  his 
physical  body,  whereby  the  divine  son,  the  higher  self,  can 
show  forth  the  wisdom  and  "lory  of  the  Father.  To  accom- 
plish all  this  he  has  been  compelled  to  use  the  positive,  external 
will,  the  will  of  execution,  the  will  active  in  the  material  world. 
Now  all  is  changed:  having  reached  the  Fifth  Decree,  he  is 

O  O  ^ 

fitted  to  enter  and  explore  the  realm  of  cause.  As  he  enters 
that  realm  he  realizes  the  necessity  of  obtaining  an  understand- 
ing of  the  laws  therein  active,  in  order  that  he  may  possess  the 
necessary  powers  to  labor  in  that  world.  It  is  the  world  of 
creation  into  which  he  has  entered,  and  the  will  by  which  he 
must  rule,  is  the  silent  will  of  stillness,  that  will  which  causes 
all  things  to  obey,  that  will  which  will  allow  nothing  to  inter- 
fere with  the  purpose  of  the  Creator.  In  this  degree  the  neo- 
phyte feels  the  need  of  wisdom  and  discrimination;  and  in  order 
to  gain  wisdom  lie  must  draw  into  his  organism,  by  persistent 
silent  musing,  the  principle  of  love  which  finds  expression  in 
the  nature  of  the  divine  Mother.  He  must  strive  to  come  to 
;m  understanding  of  that  love:  he  must  endeavor  to  realize  the 
difference  between  that  love,  which  is  life,  and  the  carnal  de- 
sire active  in  the  world,  which  has  been  mis-called  by  that 
holy  and  sac-red  term.  He  should  bear  in  mind,  that  the  di- 
vine feminine  is  love,  the  divine  masculine  is  knowledge;  the 
child  born  from  the  union  of  these  two  principles  is  wisdom. 


50  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

When  man  has  sufficiently  developed  the  spiritual  powers, 
he  enters  the  Sixth  Degree,  the  Degree  wherein  the  "likeness 
of  the  Father"  manifests  itself.  This  Degree  is  the  crowning 
ultimate  of  the  present  time;  it  is  here  that  the  flaming  sword 
is  lifted;  man  passes  behind  the  veil,  and  receives  from  the 
formless  one,  the  keys  which  unlock  for  him  the  mysteries  of 
life  and  death.*  It  would  profit  little  to  dwell  upon  the  grand- 
eur  of  the  perfected  souls  who  have  attained  to  that  high  and 
holy  degree.  Long  before  man  reaches  this  state,  he  will  have 
developed  wisdom  and  understanding;  he  will  no  longer  be  de- 
pendent upon  others  for  instruction;  he  will  have  returned  to 
Eden  where  he  can  at  all  times  "behold  the  face  of  the  Father," 
having  become  one  with  him.  Such  grand  souls  are  immortal 
in  the  broadest  meaning  of  the  term;  they  have  overcome  death, 
therefore  the  grave  has  no  terrors  for  them. 


*In  regard  to  these  sublime  degrees  we  think  we  may  speak  from  analogy  and 
from  authorities,  if  not  from  experience. 


CHAPTER  V 


THE    HOLY    NAMH. 

When  God  determined  to  free  Israel  from  the  bonds  of 
slavery  he  selected  Moses,  a  man  learned  in  the  knowledge  of 
the  Egyptian  priesthood,  as  their  deliverer.  In  order  to  dem- 
onstrate to  Pharaoh  that  God  had  indeed  ordained  Israel  as 
his  chosen  people,  it  was  necessary  that  Moses  should  possess 
greater  wisdom  and  be  able  to  perform  greater  wonders  than 
the  priests  and  wise  men  who  had  been  his  instructors  in  the 
mysteries  of  magic.  That  Moses  might  receive  the  instruction 
requisite  to  fit  him  for  his  mission,  God  led  him  to  the  moun- 
tain of  Horeb  (the  mount  of  solitude),  where,  in  a  burning 
bush  (God  is  a  consuming  fire),  he  revealed  to  his  chosen  serv- 
ant the  great  and  holy  Name. 

God's  Name,  as  revealed  to  Moses,  was  the  sacred  Hebrew 
word  of  four  letters,  YHVH,  pronounced  Yahveh,  the  literal 
translation  of  which  is  "I  will  be  what  1  will  to  be."  Ex.  III. 
14.  This  holy  Name,  composed  of  the  four  Hebrew  letters,  Yod, 
He,  Vau,  He.  is  twofold  in  character:  it  represents  the  Theos, 
or  male  principle  of  Divinity,  and  the  Sophia,  Wisdom,  the  di- 
vine female  principle,  the  universal  Mother-Nature.  The  first 
letter,  Yod  (hand),  signifies  k%the  active  principle,  or  power  of 
creation,  the  supreme  will  of  execution.''  The  second  letter. 
He  (window),  indicates  "the  gate  to  Eden,"  or  the  entrance 
into  the  heavenly  kingdom  of  the  immortals.  The  third  letter, 
Vau,  means  "a  nail,"  and  symbolizes  that  all  who  have  incor- 
porated the  qualities  of  the  Name  into  their  organism,  are  allied 
to  the  God  of  the  universe,  through  being  able  to  work  in  har- 
mony with  his  will,  and  are  therefore  forever  "firmly  united  to 
the  Supreme  Mind."  The  fourth  letter,  He  (window),  is  a 
repetition  of  the  second,  and  represents,  or  symbolizes,  "the 


5*2  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

second  veil,  or  entrance  to  the  Holy  of  holies/'  All  who  obtain 
a  correct  understanding  of  this  Name,  by  accepting  Yahveh  as 
their  strength,  will  realize  that  they  have  "power  with  God  and 
man,  and  have  become  masters.'*  To  gain  this  realization  they 
must  be  obedient  to  the  promptings  of  the  Spirit;  otherwise 
they  will  call  down  the  fires  of  infinite  wrath,  which  will  con- 
sume them.  Therefore  when  you  pray  that  the  divine  fires  may 
enter,  be  careful  that  your  thoughts  are  pure  and  unselfish,  and 
free  from  sense  desires  of  any  kind. 

The  Name  Yahveh  remained  with  Israel  until  they  defiled 
themselves  by  lustful  and  idolatrous  worship.  They  were  re- 
peatedly warned,  and  admonished  to  turn  from  their  sinful 
ways,  but  they  turned  deaf  ears  and  sank  deeper  into  sensual- 
ism and  adultery.  Therefore  God  took  from  Israel  the  knowl- 
edge of  his  Name,  and,  losing  it,  they  lost  power  and  prestige, 
and  eventually  were  scattered  as  a  nation,  and  lost  to  the  his- 
tory of  the  world.  "Behold,  I  have  sworn  by  my  great  Name, 
saith  Yahveh,  that  my  Name  shall  no  more  be  named  in  the 
mouth  of  any  man  of  Judah,  in  all  the  land  of  Egypt."  Jer.' 
XLIV.  26.  Strange  to  say,  even  the  learned  Hebrews  of  the 
present  day  have  not  the  correct  understanding  of  the  great 
Name  of  God:  but  to  lost  Israel,  the  seed  of  Abraham,  God's 
anointed  people,  the  great  Name  has  been  revealed  anew,  and 
many  are  beginning  to  realize  that  in  it  lies  the  secret  of  true 
spiritual  power,  and  eternal,  conscious  life.  By  God's  anointed 
people  we  mean,  the  Christian  nations  of  the  earth,  who  un- 
doubtedly are  the  lost  ten  tribes  of  Israel. 

The  ancient  students  of  magic  understood  that  in  the  Name 
Yahveh  was  great  potency,  but  they  certainly  did  not  compre- 
hend its  full  importance  or  the  power  to  be  derived  from  its 
use:  under  such  conditions  they  would  have  realized  that  "the 
secret  (power)  of  Yahveh  is  with  them  that  fear  (consecrate 
themselves  to)  him;  and  he  will  show  them  his  covenant/' 
Psalm  xxv.  14.  (Read  Exodus  XIX.  if  you  would  become  fa- 
miliar with  the  covenant  promise  of  God.)  Had  the  ancients 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  53 

been  spiritually  illuminated,  they  would  have  understood  the 
necessity  of  a  life  of  renunciation  and  regeneration;  God  would 
have  revealed  his  Name  to  them  in  all  its  fullness,  and  through 
it  they  would  have  gained,  what  they  sought  so  earnestly,  the 
Elixir  of  Eternal  Youth. 

•kThe  Name  of  the  Deity,  which  we  call  Jehovah,  is  in  He- 
brew a  Name  of  four  letters,  JHVH;  and  the  true  pronuncia- 
tion of  it  is  known  to  very  few.  The  true  pronunciation  is  a 
most  secret  arcanum,  and  is  a  secret  of  secrets.  *He  who  can 
rightly  pronounce  it,  causes  heaven  and  earth  to  tremble,  for 
it  is  the  Name  which  rusheth  through  the  universe.'  Therefore 
when  a  devout  Jew  comes  upon  it  in  reading  the  Scriptures,  he 
either  does  not  attempt  to  pronounce  it,  but  instead  makes  a 
short  pause,  or  else  he  substitutes  for  it  the  name  Adotiai^ 
ADXI,  Lord/'—  The  .Ktilxdah  Unveiled. 

Of  the  various  appellations  by  which  they  designated  Deity, 
the  Pythagoreans  preferred  the  name  Yahveh.  They  had  many 
others,  but  this  word  of  four  letters  they  held  most  sacred.  It 
•was  considered  by  them  too  sacred  and  holy  to  be  pronounced 
or  familiarly  used,  therefore  they  designated  God,  when  used 
in  the  sense  of  the  4'I  will  be  what  I  will  to  be,"  as  "Tetragram- 
inaton."  We  must  here  remind  the  student  that  the  Name  Yah- 
veh is  a  most  sacred  and  holy  Name,  and  must  be  used  only 
when  holy  and  unselfish  ultimates  are  desired.  It  should  be 
born  in  mind  that  "the  value  of  tilings  is  in  their  use;"  there- 
fore, if  you  value  the  power  of  the  Spirit,  use  this  word  wisely. 

In  order  to  arrive  at  a  true  conception  of  the  nature  of  God  and 
the  purpose  of  man's  creation  and  ultimate  destiny,  the  student 
should  remember  that  God  is  formless.  If  you  picture  God  as 
having  form,  you  clothe  him  in  garments  created  in  your  imagi- 
nation: this  makes  you  an  idolator,  a  worshiper  of  images.  In 
doing  this  you  break  the  covenant  you  have  made  with  the 
Creator,  and  cease  to  have  complete  trust  in  his  guiding  power. 
God  is  the  mind  that  fills  space;  the  mind  that  controls  abso- 
lutely, and  is  obeyed  without  thought  of  contradiction.  He  is  the 


/>4  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

life  that  animates  and  gives  consciousness  to  all  creation.  Iti 
him  is  all  power,  all  wisdom,  all  love.  He  is  the  absolute  all. 
If  it  were  possible  for  man  to  separate  himself  for  a  single 
moment  from  God,  consciousness  would  cease,  man  would  be 
as  if  he  never  had  existed.  The  universe  sprang  into  existence 
at  his  word,  and,  by  the  power  of  his  will,  he  holds  all  things 
in  form. 

The  student  who  is  striving  after  immortality,  inust  incor- 
porate into  his  organism  those  divine  powers  that  will  give  him 
dominion  over  all  things.  Yahveh,  the  ikl  will  be  what  I  will 
to  be",  represents  those  qualities;  therefore,  when  man  is  able 
to  underatandingly  use  the  powers  represented  by  that  Name, 
he  has  at  his  command  unlimited  capacity  to  be  what  he  wills 
to  be.  Through  this  power  man  has  access  to  wisdom,  knowl- 
edge, and  understanding.  As  he  grows  in  knowledge  and  power, 
he  gradually  draws  himself  out  from  the  body  of  humanity,  and 
forces  his  way  deeper  and  deeper  into  those  fountains  of  ever- 
lasting youth,  flowing  unceasingly  from  the  Source  of  all  life. 
As  he  separates  himself  from  the  material  condition  of  physi- 
cal life,  he  begins  to  realize  that  he  is  gradually  gaining  domin- 
ion over  the  forces  ruling  that  realm.  The  power  governing- 
creation,  or  generation,  is  the  word  of  power  willed  by  God  in- 
to the  thought  that  brought  our  earth  into  being.  This  power 
governs  all  planetary  life.  The  command,  "Increase  and  multi- 
ply, and  replenish  the  earth,"  was  intrusted  to  the  god  of  gen- 
eration, the  Elohim.  Faithfully  are  those  commands  executed; 
all  nature  obeys  them  without  question.  Man  comes  under 
the  dominion  of  this  power,  the  soul  of  the  planet,  and  were  he 
to  remain  dependent  upon  his  own  strength  he  would  never 
rise  above  generation,  never  enter  the  eternal  sabbath,  never 
become  immortal. 

As  man  is  carried  upward  by  the  currents  of  evolution,  the 
soul  begins  to  perceive  its  ultimate  destiny.  As  it  begins  to 
understand  the  purpose  of  its  creation,  it  looks  about  for  the 
methods  by  which  it  may  obtain  the  necessary  powers  to  enable 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  55 

it  to  consummate  the  will  of  the  Father.  When  man  truly 
desires,  he  establishes  the  conditions  of  possession;  the  soul 
prayer  ascends  to  the  throne  of  the  Father,  and  then  comes 
back  the  answer,  "Therefore  I  say  unto  you,  What  things  so- 
ever ye  desire,  when  ye  pray,  believe  that  ye  receive  them,  and 
ye  shall  have  them."  St.  Mark  xi.  24.  In  order  to  believe  in 
and  trust  God,  man  must  make  a  covenant  of  obedience  to  him; 
and  before  this  covenant  of  obedience  can  either  be  made  or 
ratified,  man  must  understand  the  meaning1  of  the  Father's 
Name — not  al.me  intellectually,  but  also  in  the  soul. 

When  God  created  Adam,  he  created  him  in  his  own  im- 
age, and  endowed  him  with  the  power  to  develop  his — the 
Father's — likeness.  Adam  was  created  an  immortal  spirit, 
and  for  the  purpose  of  giving  him  the  opportunity  to  grow  in- 
to the  likeness  of  God  he  was  placed  in  a  beautiful  physical 
body.  He  remained  pure  and  holy,  without  shame,  until  the 
god  of  generation,  the  Elohim,  forced  the  desire  upon  him  to 
defile  his  virgin  helpmeet  Kve.  This  unlawful  act  caused  Adam 
to  recognize  his  nakedness:  sin  made  him  ashamed,  and  he  en- 
deavored to  hide  from  God,  who,  up  to  this  time,  "talked  with 
him  face  to  face/'  Cain,  the  first  fruit  of  disobedience,  was  a 
murderer.  He  was  far  from  being  the  equal  of  his  father,  who 
had  been  created  by  God,  and  his  birth  marked  the  beginning 
of  the  descent  of  spiritual  man  into  matter.  Adam  was  an 
immortal,  and  would  have  remained  so  had  he  obeyed  the  voice 
of  God.  Cain  and  his  progeny  were  mortals,  because  they  were 
born  of  flesh:  they  were  the  offspring  of  sin,  and  the  result  of 
sin  is  death.  For  ages  the  race  has  been  descending  deeper 
and  deeper  into  matter.  In  our  age  the  descendants  of  Adam 
have  become  so  merged  in  matter,  so  under  control  of  the  phys- 
ical senses,  that  the  spirit  within  is  unable  to  express  its  true 
nature.  They  have  wandered  so  far  from  the  true  path  that 
they  are  utterly  unable  to  comprehend  spirit.  They  have  gone 
as,  deep  into  matter  as  it  is  possible  for  them  to  do;  the  requi- 
site knowledge  has  been  gained,  and  the  only  true  course  of 


0()  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

life  now  lies  before  them.  They  must  either  ally  themselves  to- 
the  Spirit,  and  rise  to  a  condition  of  celestial  power,  or  once 
more  descend,  until  another  cycle  passes  and  another  oppor- 
tunity presents  itself.  There  is  only  one  road  to  heaven,  and 
that  is  found  by  living  the  regenerate  life.  The  Kabalists  were 
very  wise  when  they  taught  that  Yahveh  has  ordained  that  cir- 
cumcision (symbolizing  regeneration)  is  the  way  to  heaven, 
the  way  to  eternal  life. 

The  age  in  which  we  live  marks  the  epoch  of  man's  emanci- 
pation. Proof  of  this  lies  in  the  fact  that  the  sacred  Name  of 
God  is  being  revealed  to  the  world,  and  also  that  great  num- 
bers are  at  the  present  time  seeking  immortality.  "They  shall 
calLon  my  Name,  and  I  will  hear  them:  I  will  say,  it  is  my  peo- 
ple: and  they  shall  say,  Yahveh  is  my  God."  Zech.  xin.  9. 
The  desire  for  immortality  has  become  almost  universal,  and  we 
believe  that  this  desire  has  caused  God  again  to  reveal  his  Name 
to  man.  "For  this  cause  have  I  raised  thee  up,  for  to  show  in 
thee  my  power:*and  that  my  Name  may  be  declared  throughout 
<all  the  earth."  Ex.  ix.  16. 

To  use  the  sacred  and  holy  Name  of  God  for  selfish  or  un- 
lawful purposes  is  a  very  serious  matter,  and  will  entail  much 
suffering  upon  all  who  so  use  it.  Before  the  student  decides 
upon  the  use  of  the  Name,  he  should  be  certain  that  he  has 
the  consent  of  the  soul.  Before  the  consent  of  the  soul  can  be 
obtained  the  life  must  be  consecrated  to  God.  It  is  a  most 
difficult  thing  to  do  this, — to  renounce  the  world,  and  unre- 
servedly consecrate  the  life  to  God;  yet,  unless  the  consecration 
is  complete,  the  promised  results  cannot  be  obtained.  Unless 
the  whole  nature  consents,  there  will  Jal  ways  be  a  reservation; 
and  the  lower  nature  will  never  consent  until  compelled  to  do 
so  by  the  interior  man.  Remember  that  heretofore  "many 
principalities  and  powers  have  ruled  your  life;"  but,  if  you 
dedicate  your  life  to  God,  you  can  have  no  other  power  beside 
him.  "He  giveth  power  and  strength  to  his  people/'  Psalm 
LXVIII.  35.  "I  am  Yahveh;  that  is  my  Name:  and  my  glory 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  57 

will  I  not  give  to  another,  neither  my  Name  to  graven  images." 
Isaiah  XLII.  8. 

If  the  student  who  makes  use  of  these  instructions  has  not 
already  consecrated  his  life  to  God  and  renounced  all  earthly 
ties,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  pause  here,  and  not  attempt 
to  proceed  further  until  he  has  done  so.  The  purpose  of  these 
instructions  is  to  show  the  student  how  he  can  draw  down  the 
divine  fire.  If  his  thoughts  are  pure  and  holy,  these  fires  will 
consume  all  the  impurities  in  the  nature,  leaving  only  the 
pure  refined  gold  of  spirit  life:  but  if  the  desires  are  unholy, 
they  will  set  on  fire  all  the  smouldering,  therefore  unconquered, 
appetites  and  passions.  Unholy  desires  will  cause  him  to  com- 
mit errors  and  indiscretions  that  will  entail  untold  sorrow  and 
remorse,  and  perhaps  cause  death  to  the  physical  organism.  " And 
Nadab  and  Abilm,  the  sons  of  Aaron,  took  either  of  them  his 
censer,  and  put  fire  therein,  and  offered  strange  fire  before 
Yahveh,  which  he  commanded  them  not.  And  there  went  out 
fire  from  Yaliveh,  and  devoured  them,  and  they  died  before 
Yahveli."  Lev.  x.  1,  2.  Be  warned  by  the  fate  which  over- 
took these  priests  in  ancient  times,  and  do  not  attempt  to  offer 
strange  fire  upon  the  altar  of  God.  The  altar  of  man's  tem- 
ple is  the  principle  of  sex,  the  fountain  of  life,  of  creative  en- 
ergy and  power. 

(Jod,  being  the  mind  and  life  of  the  universe,  contains  within 
himself  all  qualities  and  principles.  Before  man  attempts  to 
draw  these  divine  qualities  into  his  nature,  he  must  decide  what 
is  necessary  to  the  ultimation  of  his  purpose.  The  ultimate  for 
which  man  is  destined,  is  to  be  like  God — in  his  likeness  cre- 
ated he  man.  Therefore  if  man  would  unfold  that  likeness  he 
must  be  able  to  say,  "I  will  be  what  I  will  to  be."  To  be  able 
to  say  "I  will,"  necessitates  the  ability  to  will  and  to  do.  This 
power  may  be  gained  if  the  following  suggestions  are  faithfully 
followed: — 

Set  apart  one  hour  each  day  for  this  purpose,  the  hour  of 
sunrise  being  the  best.  Use  a  room  occupied  only  by  yourself, 


58  THE    KOA1>    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

and  dedicate  it  to  the  service  of  God.  Consecrate  all  yon  are 
or  hope  to  be  to  the  Holy  Spirit,  the  unformed  ocean  of  deific 
mind  that  fills  all  space  and  controls  all  life;  and  fervently 
desire  that  that  mind  will  accept  the  dedication,  and  take  full 
possession  of  your  room.  When  you  have  dedicated  your  room 
to  God,  look  upon  it  as  a  most  sacred  place,  a  temple  in  which 
you  are  to  worship  him.  Before  you  enter  this  room, — if  you 
wish  for  certain  results — be  absolutely  sure  that  your  mind  is, 
free  from  hatred,  anger,  jealousy,  passion,  or  any  evil  thought 
or  desire.  Try  to  feel  in  a  holy  frame  of  mind,  at  peace  with 
your  own  soul  and  with  all  mankind.  Strive  to  realize  the  sa- 
credness  of  the  presence  you  are  endeavoring  to  draw  to  you, 
and  the  high  ultimate  you  have  in  view.  Have  as  little  furni- 
ture in  your  room  as  possible,  and  let  that  be  of  such  a  charac- 
ter that  you  can  frequently  wipe  it  with  a  damp  cloth.  Avoid 
having  carpets  on  the  floor,  or  paper  on  the  walls;  these  hold 
the  old  magnetic  conditions  which  you  throw  off,  and  which  are 
detrimental  to  your  purpose.  If  you  faithfully  carry  out  the 
above  instructions,  you  will  be  conscious  that,  when  you  enter 
your  room  after  a  day  of  worry  and  struggle,  the  Spirit  is  there 
to  receive  you,  and  that  the  Father's  love  is  also  there,  to  renew 
and  strengthen  your  determination. 

Have  a  seat  (a  strong  wooden  chair  is  best  for  your  purpose) 
especially  for  your  own  use,  and  permit  no  one  else  to  sit  upon 
it.  We  also  advise  you  to  allow  no  one  to  enter  your  room  ex- 
cept those  who  are  in  full  sympathy  with  your  purpose,  and 
who  realize  that  your  room  is  your  temple,  your  holy  sanctuary. 
Take  your  seat  facing  the  east,  body  erect  but  not  tense:  have 
your  lower  limbs  from  the  hips  to  the  knees  horizontal,  from 
the  knees  to  the  feet  perpendicular  to  the  body;  hands  resting 
lightly  on  the  knees.  *  See  to  it  that  the  head,  neck  and  chest 
are  always  in  a  perpendicular  line.  You  cannot  think  spiritual 
thoughts  if  the  chest  is  in  a  cramped  position;  nor  should  you 
permit  the  head  to  droop  and  rest  upon  the  chest,  as  this  posture 
is  very  injurious,  both  mentally  and  physically.  Be  sure  that 


THK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  59 

your  chair  is  the  right  height  to  permit  of  this.  Sitting  in  this 
position  permits  the  magnetic  and  electric  currents  to  pass 
through  you  without  friction.  Having  seated  yourself  in  the 
proper  position,  '"'be  still  and  know  God."  Try  to  go  out  into 
space,  in  your  imagination,  and  find  the  light  of  Spirit.  Try, 
with  the  eyes  of  the  mind,  to  see  a  white  light,  which  actually 
exists  and  fills  space.  This  light  is  God,  and  when  you  are 
able  to  perceive  it,  endeavor  to  draw  it  into  your  organism  by 
means  of  the  breath,  as  follows: — 

Breathe  deeply  and  fully,  as  deeply  as  possible,  and  from 
within  repeat  the  first  syllable  of  the  sacred  Name, — k*Yah."  En- 
deavor to  feel  the  qualities  of  that  Name  entering  your  being,— 
qualities  which  are  power  to  execute  the  purpose  of  your  will. 
If  you  watch  closely  you  will  notice  that  the  breath  appears  to 
start  a  current  at  the  lower  extremity  of  the  spinal  column. 
This  interior  current  changes  the  flow  of  the  finer  life  elements: 
heretofore  they  have  flowed  downward  and  outward;  now  you 
begin  to  turn  them  upward  and  inward  toward  Spirit,  and  away 
from  material  conditions.  This  current  is  the  means  by  which 
the  magnetic  elements — which  by  the  power  of  transmutation 
have  been  separated  from  the  life  generated  in  the  sex  organ  — 
are  carried  to  the  brain,  the  instrument  through  which  the 

O 

mind  acts,  a  process  which  results  in  the  vivification  and  illu- 
mination of  that  organ.  The  elements  carried  to  the  brain  are 
those  desired  by  the  interior  mind,  and  as  the  interior  mind  is 
seeking  "likeness  of  God,''  the  qualities  represented  by  the  "I 
will  be"  are  drawn  upward. 

As  you  exhale  the  breath,  interiorly  repeat  the  second  sylla- 
ble of  the  sacred  Name, — "Vch."  This  part  of  the  drill,  as  the 
student  will  readily  perceive,  starts  a  downward  current,  which, 
when  joined  to  the  one  flowing  upward,  creates  a  wheel  that,  once 
started,  continues  to  run  of  its  own  volition.  After  you  remain 
in  this  position  for  a  while,  your  body  will  become  rigid.  This 
is  as  it  should  be,  as  it  makes  you  positive  to,  and  proof  against, 
external  influences  of  an  evil  character.  Keep  the  interior 


00  THE    KOAI)    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

nature  negative,  or  open  to  the  inflow  of  divine  power,  and  be 
sure  you  do  not  lose  consciousness,  or  become  entranced.  If 
you  do  so,  you  will  run  great  danger  of  being  controlled:  and 
instead  of  developing  into  a  son  of  God,  you  will  find  that  you 
have  become  a  medium  through  which  unclean  spirits  seek  to- 
manifest  their  depraved  instincts. 

After  you  have  started  the  currents  and  found  the  Spirit 
Light,  endeavor  to  abstract  the  consciousness  from  the  brain 
by  running  the  thought,  "I  am  spirit,"  up  and  down  the  limbs. 
Do  not  neglect  to  keep  inspiring  the  Name,  "Yah — Veh.'r 
You  must  keep  the  currents  active  while  engaged  in  sitting. 
If  you  find  that  you  can  abstract  the  consciousness  from  the 
brain,  endeavor  to  centralize  it  in  the  sensorium  of  the  heart, 
the  organ  of  sensation  and  emotion.  Be  careful,  however,  not 
to  continue  the  concentration  there — especially  if  you  belong 
to  an  interior  sign  or  to  the  head  of  a  trinity — but  pass  imme- 
diately to  the  feet.  Endeavor  to  feel  that  you  are  inside  of 
them,  and  in  imagination  try  to  picture  them  as  luminous  with 
the  white  light  of  Spirit;  all  the  old  masters  taught  that  man 
should  develop  from  the  feet  up.  If  you  find  that  th^  feet  are 
not  luminous,  but  dark  and  cold,  persist  in  your  endeavor  to- 
make  them  luminous  and  filled  with  life.  When  all  impurities 
are  removed,  the  illuminating  power  of  the  Spirit  will  cause 
them  to  shine.  They  must  be  cleansed,  as  they  represent  the 
understanding.  If  they  should  burn  as  with  fire,  the  life  that 
is  being  transmuted  is  not  properly  distributed.  To  correct 
this,  draw  the  life  from  the  feet  by  the  power  of  thought,  and 
diffuse  it  throughout  the  body.  When  you  find  that  the  feet 
are  luminous,  then  with  the  consciousness  draw  the  light  up- 
ward to  the  calves  of  the  legs.  As  those  organs  become  puri- 
fied pass  on  to  the  next,  until  you  reach  the  reins, — the  small 
of  the  back,  the  region  of  the  kidneys.  Dwell  in  this  organ 
a  long  while;  it  is  the  storehouse  for  the  life,  and  until 
it  has  been  purified  by  the  divine  light,  it  will  be  found  to  be 
full  of  serpents,  which,  if  you  are  clairvoyant,  you  can  see. 


THK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY,  (ii 

Spend  some  time  in  the  spinal  column.  This  part  of  the  struct- 
ure must  be  absolutely  free  from  all  impurities,  or  the  mind 
will  not  be  illuminated  with  the  white  light;  and  in  that  case 
the  thoughts  will  be  distorted  and  out  of  harmony  with  the 
purpose  of  God.  This  is  so  because  the  finer  and  more  spirit- 
ual elements  of  life  pass  through  the  spinal  column,  from  the 
reins  t.o  the  brain.  Dwell  long  iu  the  organ  at  the  base  of  the 
brain;  it  must  be  absolutely  free  from  all  impurities.  This  is 
the  organ  that  controls  animal  sensation;  and  if  it  is  not  lumi- 
nous with  the  spiritual  light,  the  desires  of  the  lower  nature 
will  be  for  animal  pleasures.  When  you  pass  to  the  front  brain, 
realize  that  you  are  now  in  those  organs  that  express  the  higher 
mental  attributes.  The  window  through  which  the  soul  looks 
out  upon  the  cause  world  is  situated  in  the  organ  of  perception, 
just  above  the  eyes;  the  organ  of  soul-perception  being  in  the 
center.  When  you  can  illuminate  the  body  from  the  crown  of 
the  head  to  the  soles  of  the  feet,  you  are  in  a  position  to  defy 
disease  and  the  unseen  powers  of  the  astral  world.  Do  riot  let 
failure  deter  you  from  your  purpose;  make  up  your  mind  to 
work  for  years,  if  necessary,  until  the  desired  ends  are  reached. 
But  if  you  persist,  and  are  faithful  to  your  dedication,  you  will 
sooner  or  later  realize  that  you  are  not  working  alone,  but  that 
you  are  allied  to  the  highest  and  noblest  souls  now  on  earth.  You 
will  also  be  made  to  know  that  these  methods  have  opened  for 
von  the  door  to  the  grandest  mystic  order  in  existence,  whose 
temple,  though  hidden  from  the  eyes  of  men,  does  exist.  Not 
only  does  this  temple  exist,  but,  as  they  are  ready,  all  will  be 
led  to  it,  and  will  be  initiated  into  the  sacred  mysteries  of  life, 
which  cannot  be  revealed  to  those  who  would  unwisely  use  them. 
We  have  endeavored  to  make  these  drills  as  simple  as  possi- 
ble. We  have  not  gone  as  deeply  into  them,  or  explained  them 
as  fully,  as  we  would  have  liked,  but  we  have  revealed  as  much 
as  has  been  permitted.  What  has  been  given  will  be  sufficient 
for  the  faithful  ones;  for  when  higher  and  holier  are  needed, 
One  will  be  present  to  make  the  necessary  suggestions.  As 


62  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

you  tread  the  road  in  sorrow  and  in  tears,  be  cheered,  dear 
faithful  souls,  with  this  thought:  You  are  left  alone  only  be- 
cause it  is  the  wisest  plan  for  you.  Your  brothers,  bound  to 
you  by  ties  stronger  than  the  ties  of  earth,  continually  watch 
and  give  aid  when  it  is  needed.  They  are  invisible  to  you  now, 
but  there  will  assuredly  come  a  time  when  the  veil  will  be  rent 
asunder,  and  you  will  stand  face  to  face,  not  only  with  Him 
who  has  you  directly  under  his  charge,  but  with  all  the  Brother- 
hood,— those  who  still  labor  on  the  visible  plane,  and  those  who 
have  passed  on  to  the  higher  uses  in  the  invisible  section.  May 
the  peace  and  love  of  God  abide  with  you  until  that  time 
arrives;  and  may  you  be  able  to  drink  from  the  "fountain  of 
living  waters,"  which  give  eternal  life. 


CHAPTER   VrL 


CONSCIOUS    SLEKP. 

The  student  who  is  striving  to  obtain  eternal  consciousness 
should  bear  in  mind  the  fact  that,  if  he  is  unable  to  retain 
consciousness  during  sleep,  he  is  still  under  the  law  of  death, 
still  far  from  the  goal  of  his  desires.  The  heavy,  unconscious 
stupor,  so  common  to  all  men,  and  which  is  considered  the  cor- 
rect method  of  obtaining  rest,  is  wholly  a  condition  of  the  ani- 
mal world,  and  does  not  by  any  means  rejuvenate  the  body; 
on  the  contrary,  persons  who  indulge  in  the  unconscious  sleep, 
frequently  awake  feeling  dull,  heavy,  and  unrested.  To  sleep 
unconsciously  is  to  permit  elementary  forces  free  access,  and 
the  consequence  is  that  they  rob  you  of  the  finer  magnetic  ele- 
ments so  essential  to  perfect  health  and  vigor.  If  the  body  is 
unprotected  during  sleep,  the  old  fetid  magnetic  emanations  of 
your  associates,  are  drawn  into  it,  causing  you  to  feel  dull  and 
stupid  when  you  awake. 

The  immortal  spiritual  man  never  for  a  moment  lets  go  the 
power  of  forming  intelligent  thought.  It  is  true  that  as  long 
as  he  retains  the  physical  body  he  will  permit  it  to  sleep;  sleep 
with  him,  however,  is  not  a  state  of  stupor,  but  a  time  for  re- 
cuperating the  body.  During  the  period  of  sleep  the  soul  is 
free  from  the  body,  and  enters  the  higher  realm  of  mind,  or 
rather  the  realm  of  mind  to  which  his  desires  ally  it,  where  it 
lives  and  labors  in  a  conscious  condition.  The  condition  of  the 
consciousness  of  the  soul  must  ever  remain  a  mystery  to  unre- 
generated  man.  Too  much  sleep  is  harmful  to  any  one;  four  or 
five  hours  of  such  rest  should  be  sufficient  for  the  man  who  is 
conserving  all  the  energies — of  course,  those  who  are  squander- 
ing the  precious  life  require  more.  As  the  question  of  sleep  is 
very  important,  we  offer  the  following  suggestions  to  the  student. 


t)4  nil.  KOAD   io  IMMORTALITY. 

Before  retiring-  devote  a  few  minutes  to  silent  meditation,  in 
order  that  the  mind  may  be  quieted  and  made  receptive,  in 
preparation  for  the  labors  which  you,  the  spiritual  man,  intend  it 
shall  perform.  Bear  in  mind  the  thought,  that  the  subjective 
mind,  the  soul,  controls  the  physical  body,  its  sensations,  appe- 
tites, and  passions;  but  it  will  obey  the  promptings  of  the  ob- 
jective mind,  the  intellect.  This  being  true,  auto-suggestions 
are  not  only  valuable  but  necessary  to  the  man  who  is  striving 
to  overcome  the  evils.  The  suggestions,  however,  must  be 
clearly  defined  and  impressed  upon  the  soul  without  a  mental 
reservation.  If  there  are  reservations,  the  mind  cannot  impress 
the  thought  with  sufficient  power  of  will  to  accomplish  the  re- 
sults desired;  at  least  the  results  will  be  effected  only  in  a 
degree  corresponding  to  the  amount  of  force  and  fixedness  of 
purpose  possessed  by  the  objective  mind. 

Upon  retiring  suggest  to  the  subjective  mind  the  necessity 
of  watching  the  body  and  guarding  it  from  those  enemies  who, 
unless  the  soul  is  on  guard,  will  assuredly  rob  you  of  the  pre- 
cious gold  which  you  are  endeavoring  to  store  up.  But  at  the 
same  time  remember  that  the  thought  must  not  be  impressed 
upon  the  soul  that  you  doubt  its  ability  to  care  for  the  body;  such 
a  thought  will  be  sufficient  to  cause  the  subjective  consciousness 
to  disregard  the  promptings  of  the  intellect.  You  must  also 
impress  upon  the  subjective  consciousness  the  necessity  of  a 
perfect  physical  body.  These  suggestions  the  soul  will  obey. 
Of  course  you  must  not  expect  the  body  to  change  immedi- 
ately; were  it  perfectly  plastic  it  would  do  so,  but  as  it  is  not, 
some  time  must  elapse  before  the  auto-suggestions  are  mani- 
fest to  the  external  senses.  If  you  find  that  they  are  not  mani- 
fested, you  may  rest  assured  that  there  is  a  reservation,  or  a 
doubt,  still  existing  in  the  objective  mind,  which  prevents  it 
from  expressing  the  thought  with  sufficient  power  to  insure 
obedience. 

The  student  who  is  striving  to  gain  control  of  the  god  of 
sleep. — one  Of  the  most  subtle  enemies  he  meets— should,  upon 


THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  65 

retiring,  hold  the  mind  in  the  same  attitude  of  watchfulness  as 
a  man  would  naturally  hold  were  he  compelled  to  sleep  among 
thieves  with  a  great  treasure  in  his  possession.  If  he  can  avoid 
it,  he  should  never  sleep  upon  a  feather  bed;  a,  hard  hair  mat- 
tress is  much  to  be  preferred.  The  bed  cloth  ing  should  be  as 
light  as  possible.  Do  not,  however,  go  to  extremes  here,  and 
try  to  do  with  less  than  the  needs  demand;  you  should  sleep 
warmlv,  but  at  the  same  time  avoid  having  too  much  weight  on 

.     1  O  c5 

the  body-  Have  your  room  well  ventilated,  and  when  possible 
sleep  with  the  windows  open.  Have  your  windows  so  arranged 
that  they  can  be  pulled  down  from  the  top  as  well  as  raised 
from  the  bottom,  and  be  sure  to  avoid  draughts.  If  it  can  be 
so  arranged,  never  sleep  in  your  living  room.  If  you  have  two 
rooms,  do  not  sleep  with  a  fire  in  your  bed  chamber,  and  never 
permit  strangers  and  inharmonious  persons  to  enter  it;  it  should 
be  sacred  to  the  purpose  to  which  you  have  dedicated  your  life. 
Have  your  sittings  in  your  bedroom,  as  long  as  the  weather 
permits:  of  course,  in  cold  weather  use  your  living  room,  unless 
you  can  warm  your  bedroom  sufficiently  by  leaving  the  door  open 
between  the  two  apartments.  Never  sleep  in  the  same  garments 
that  you  have  worn  during  the  day;  and  if  you  take  the  daily 
baths,  as  you  should,  do  Dot  change  your  nightrobe  oftener 
than  once  in  two  weeks.  If  you  are  living  a  pure  and  holy 
life,  and  are  conserving  the  vital  fluids,  the  magnetic  elements 
retained  by  the  nightrobe,  which  should  be  of  soft  material, 
will  be  beneficial  to  you.  Never  sleep  in  a  room  into  which  the 
sun  does  not  shine,  and  at  least  once  a  month  allow  the  rays  of 
the  sun  to  touch  every  part  of  the  body.  Until  you  have  gained 
control  of  the  sex  function  do  not  take  a  sun  bath  oftener  than 
<uu-e  a  month;  the  sun  is  a  generator  of  life,  and  until  you  have 
control,  you  already  have  all  the  life  you  can  utilize.  Never 
sleep  with  a  high  pillow  under  your  head;  if  you  must  use  one, 
let  it  be  hard  and  low.  It  would  be  better  to  do  altogether 
without  pillows,  especially  in  the  case  of  persons  who  have  been 
breathing  through  the  mouth,  and  who  are  endeavoring  to 
breathe,  as  they  should,  through  the  nose. 


tH>  THK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

Kach  one  being-  differently  constituted,  no  absolute  rule  cai> 
be  given  as  to  the  position  in  which  to  lie.  The  writer  gives 
the  methods  he  has  found  suited  to  his  own  requirements: — 
Lie  flat  upon  your  back,  with  the  head  toward  the  north, 
hands  placed  upon  the  sensorium  of  the  heart,  left  hand  cover- 
ing the  right;  cross  one  foot  over  the  other,  the  left  foot  upper- 
most. At  first  this  position  will  be  difficult  to  maintain,  but 
after  you  have  become  accustomed  to  it,  you  will  find  that  you 
better  retain  the  magnetic  and  electric  elements  within  your- 
self; and  as  you  must  conquer  old  habits,  this  man  net-  of  sleep- 
ing may  prove  a  help  in  that  direction.  Sleeping  in  this  posi- 
tion helps  to  close  the  door  to  adverse  currents  and  psychisms. 
After  you  have  gained  soul  consciousness,  and  can  control  the 
life,  you  will  find  it  much  better  not  to  cross  the  limbs,  but  to 
admit  the  free  entrance  of  the  magnetic,  and  electric  currents; 
you  will  also  be  able  to  determine  the  position  best  adapted  to 
your  requirements.  If  you  watch  closely  you  will  also  find 
that  the  position  in  which  you  rest  affects  the  mental  and  sleep 
consciousness  to  a  remarkable  degree.  As  you  lie  in  the  differ- 
ent positions  carefully  study  the  mental  states,  and  you  will 
soon  be  able  to  determine  whether  you  should  sleep  with  your 
head  north,  south,  east,  or  west;  then  sleep  in  the  position  you 
find  best  suited  to  your  needs.  Should  you  be  restless  during* 
sleep,  change  your  position  until  you  can  determine  which  po- 
sition is  productive  of  quiet,  and  which  one  produces  restless- 
ness: you  can  frequently  obtain  the  desired  quiet  by  standing^ 
with  your  bare  feet  on  the  ground,  turning  your  face  toward 
the  east.  Choose  at  all  times  the  quiet;  for,  remember  you  are 
striving1  to  arrive  at  a  state  in  which  all  the  senses  can  be 

O 

stilled. 

When  you  have  determined  upon  the  position  that  you  in- 
tend to  adopt,  quietly  settle  yourself,  and  try  to  realize  that 
the  body  has  been  laid  down  to  rest,  but  that  the  real  man, 
living  as  he  does  in  an  ocean  of  life,  never  rests;  he  la- 
bors on,  ever  on,  until  he  reaches  a  state  of  continual  rest. 


THE    KOAT)    TO    IMMORTALITY.  07 

which  is  the  vest  of  service.  As  you  quietly  lie  upon  your  bed, 
hold  the  mind  passive  to  the  will  of  the  Spirit,  but  positive 
to  all  thoughts  foreign  to  your  purpose;  fix  your  mind  on  the 
Infinite,  in  loving  trust,  and  desire  strength  and  wakefulness. 
Breathe  through  the  nose,  slowly  and  regularly.  As  you  breathe 
in  this  manner,  strive  to  realize  that  you  have  started  an  inte- 
rior breath,  the  soul  breath,  the  breath  of  life,  the  feminine 
breath  of  God;  the  breath  which  Yahveh  breather!  into  Adam, 
and  which  made  him  a  conscious,  immortal  man:  a  breath  which 
he  lost  when  he  fell  from  a  state  of  regeneration  to  one  of  gen- 
eration. The  interior  breath  vivifies  and  strengthens  the  pow- 
ers of  the  soul.  It  is  a  breath  that  can  be  felt  by  a  sensitive 
person  who  possesses  soul  unfoldment:  it  appears  (perhaps  not 
to  all  alike)  as  a  sensation  of  quiet  rising  and  falling  in  the 
interior,— a  sensation  which  manifests  itself  in  the  Virgo  func- 
tion of  the  body.  Try  to  realize  that  the  external  atmosphere 
which  you  arc  breathing  contains  many  elements  besides  those 
known  to  science:  it  contains  the  life  elements  of  our  Father, — 
the  positive  life  elements  which  are  being  incorporated  into  your 
organic  structure,  enriching  your  blood  and  giving  power  and 
strength  to  all  your  faculties.  It  is  illuminating  your  brain 
and  quickening  the  power  of  the  intellect,  making  you  a  supe- 
rior creature  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  As  your  finite  mind 
assimilates  the  life  and  mind  of  the  Infinite,  you  will  gradually 
cease  to  express  the  mind  of  the  mundane,  and  begin  to  express 
the  mind  and  will  of  the  celestial  world.  Try  at  this  time  to 
reali/e  that  you  arc,  as  it  were,  at  the  center  of  an  unlimited 
ocean  of  pure,  divine  life,  which  knows  no  disease,  pain,  sor- 
row, or  death:  that  it  is  ever  conscious,  ever  doing,  ever  forcing 
all  creation  onward,  with  a  mind  and  will  that  nothing  can  re- 
sist. If  you  resist  that  mind  and  will  you  begin  to  struggle 
and  are  thrown  into  confusion;  if  you  work  in  harmony  with 
it,  you  will  be  filled  with  that  nameless  peace,  that  peace  which 
passeth  understanding,  that  peace  unknown  in  any  realm  of 
consciousness  other  than  that  of  spirit. 


68  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY, 

Iii  order  to  gain  a  soul  consciousness  you  must  with  an  un- 
wavering determination  hold  to  the  foregoing  thoughts;  when 
they  have  become  a  part  of  your  being,  you  will  realize  that 
you  have  passed  from  death  unto  life,  that  you  can  readily 
comprehend  the  divine  mysteries  of  God  likeness,  and  are  able 
to  unlock  the  door  of  the  spiritual  kingdom.  If  you  can  de- 
velop sufficient  strength  to  say,  "I  will,"  you  can  unlock  the 
door  of  the  soul,  can  lift  the  veil,  can  explore  the  hidden  cham- 
bers therein,  can  turn  the  eyes  within  and  behold  the  glories  of 
our  Father's  kingdom.  When  you  can  do  this,  you  will  be 
amazed  at  the  wondrous  power  and  love  of  God,  and  a  holy 
and  unspeakable  joy  will  fill  your  soul  witli  praise  to  Him  in 
whose  image  and  likeness  you  were  created:  sublime  and  sacred 
truths  will  be  revealed  to  you,  such  truths  as  are  withheld  from 
those  who  dwell  with  mortals,  and  are  satisfied  with  material 
dross. 

Should  the  student,  after  he  has  retired,  find  that  he  is  un- 
able to  hold  a  definite  line  of  thought,  or  to  retain  an  active 
interior  consciousness,  but  is  sinking  into  that  state  of  stupor 
which  is  literally  death,  it  may  be  necessary  to  resort  to  drastic 
means  in  order  to  accomplish  the  desired  object.  We  suggest 
that  he  try  the  following  methods: — 

Spring  from  the  bed,  without  allowing  the  external  senses  an 
opportunity  to  remonstrate,  and  proceed  at  once  to  sponge  your 
body  all  over  with  cold  water,  and  afterwards  rub  it  with  a 
coarse  towel  until  it  is  dry  and  warm.  When  it  has  been  rubbed 
dry,  clothe  yourself  in  loose  garments  that  will  permit  the  air 
to  have  free  access  to  all  parts  of  the  body;  walk  briskly  up  and 
down  the  room  until  your  body  glows  with  the  energies  you 
have  brought  into  activity.  When  your  body  and  brain  have 
become  active,  quietly  seat  yourself  in  your  chair,  in  an  easy 
reclining  position.  Now  try  to  realize  that  you  have  access  to> 
the  fountain  of  living  waters,  the  divine  life,  which  is  filled 
with  potential  energy  and  vigor.  Try  to  draw  this  creative 
life  into  your  body,  in  order  to  recuperate  the  energies:  at  the 


INK    KOAI)    TO    IMMORTALITY.  69 

same  time  through  auto-suggestion  impress  the  soul,  the  con- 
scious, thinking,  immortal  man,  that  it  does  not  require  to  sleep, 
that  it  must  not  sink  into  a  state  of  unconsciousness,  but  must 
ever  remain  on  guard  to  protect  its  servant,  the  physical  body. 
The  interior  man  is  spirit,  therefore  he  must  always  remain 
consciously  engaged  iu  forming  thought.  Remember  that  you 
are  striving  to  grow  into  the  likeness  of  Him  who  never  slum- 
bers nor  sleeps.  Von  must  ever  remain  conscious,  ever  press 
onward  toward  the  goal  you  have  set  before  you,  ever  realize 
that  you  are  equal  and  one  with  the  angelic  hosts,  who  press 
around  the  Father's  throne,  and  continually  cry,  "Mosanna  to 
the  Lord  on  high."  When  the  body  feels  tired,  again  retire. 
If,  as  before,  you  feel  that  you  are  falling  into  an  unconscious 
condition  of  mind,  arise  and  repeat  the  drill.  Do  this  time  and 
again,  even  if  you  have  to  pass  the  night  without  sleep;  but  do 
not  attempt  this  severe  method  until  you  have  made  some  prog- 
ress in  retaining;  the  seed.  We  also  advise  women  not  to  at- 
tempt to  follow  these  directions;  they  are  differently  constituted 
and  cast  in  a  tiner  and  more  delicate  mould  than  is  man.  The 
arch-natural  woman  stands  in  the  life  centers:  the  arch-natural 
man  is  the  exprcssor  of  the  mind  of  God. 

No  ivgime  can  be  intelligently  laid  down  by  which  woman 
can  obtain  conscious  sleep.  A  positive  woman  may  with  safety 
follow  the  suggestions  given  to  men:  a  negative  woman  cannot. 
She  should  use  great  discretion  and  discrimination  in  the  mat- 
ter of  obtaining  rest;  and  endeavor  by  every  method  at  her 
command  to  retain  the  tiner  and  more  vital  elements,  which  are 
continually  flowing  out  to  her  associates,  even  though  she  be 
unaware  of  the  fact.  She  should  endeavor  to  establish  a  tran- 
quil state  of  mind,  refusing  to  be  worried,  or  to  be  led  into  such 
scenes  of  gaiety  or  excitement  as  will  arouse  the  imagination, 
01-  cause  unhappiness  or  inharmony;  both  of  the  conditions  last 
named  are  productive  of  a  mental  state  detrimental  to  the  con- 
servation of  the  life  forces.  She  should  so  arrange  her  mode 
of  living  that  she  may  be  able  to  take  needed  rest  whenever 


70  THK    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

she  feels  the  strain  of  undue  fatigue.  She  must  remember, 
however,  that  a  heavy,  unconscious  sleep  will  not  rest  her  nearly 
so  well  as  will  the  quiet,  semi-conscious,  interior  musing.  When 
she  becomes  conscious  of  receiving  new  and  more  spiritual  life 
potencies,  she  must  be  careful  not  to  build  ideal  states  and 
associations,  but  should  centralize  her  thoughts  on  God  our 
Father,  with  a  desire  that  the  gathered  life  may  be  wholly  ded- 
icated to  him  and  to  the  elevation  of  humanity.  Woman's  call- 
ing is  a  high  and  holy  one;  the  present  cycle  marks  the  time 
when  she  is  to  be  emancipated,  when  she  is  to  be  freed  from 
the  bondage  of  sin,  consequent  upon  the  fall.  She  is  now  to 
occupy  her  true  place  by  the  side  of  her  brother  man,  as  his 
equal  and  divine  helpmeet. 

The  student  who  is  compelled  to  resort  to  the'  foregoing 
methods  may,  and  undoubtedly  will,  find  that  he  is  very  tired 
the  next  day,  feeling  almost  unable  to  perform  his  duties;  but 
if  he  keeps  the  will  active,  he  will  be  surprised  to  realize  that  he 
is  noi  as  tired  as  he  had  expected  to  be.  Repeat  the  drill,  night 
after  night,  until  success  crowns  your  efforts.  You  will  fail 
many,  many  times;  but  gradually  a  new  consciousness  will 
awaken  within,  and  when  it  does,  you  will  quickly  realize  that 
the  state  which  you  before  looked  upon  as  consciousness,  was 
but  a  dream  from  which  you  have  awakened  to  find  yourself  in 
a  condition  of  spiritual  consciousness  that  is  everlasting. 

You  are  striving  to  become  a  son  of  God,  therefore  need  not 
lose  the  consciousness  in  order  to  obtain  bodily  strength  and 
mental  vigor;  just  the  reverse  is  necessary.  When  you  gain  a 
soul  consciousness  that  neither  slumbers  nor  ceases  from  active 
labor,  you  will  require  very  little  sleep;  and  when  you  do  awaken 
from  your  conscious  sleep,  you  will  be  strengthened  and  invig- 
orated, filled  with  power  and  understanding.  If  you  persist  in 
your  endeavors  to  sleep  consciously,  in  time  you  will  be  sur- 
prised to  realize  that  your  body  has  fallen  asleep,  but  that  you, 
the  real,  conscious,  undying  man,  have  all  the  higher  faculties 
awake  and  active.  You  may  now  watch  and  study  the  sleeping 


THE    HOAI)    TO    IMMORTALITY.  71 

bod}7:  it  may  rest  in  perfect  security,  for  the  master  is  awake 
and  on  guard,  ever  ready  to  repel  the  adversary  who  would  at- 
tempt to  approach  and  disturb  his  servant.  Yon  will  now 
realize  that  your  physical  body  is  but  an  animal  to  be  used  by 
you,  who  are  a  spiritual  son  of  God.  When  you  can  realize 
this,  you  have  made  much  progress  toward  your  ultimate  goal. 
One  of  the  greatest  barriers  to  soul  growth  has  been  the  fact 
that  man  has  looked  upon  the  physical  body  as  the  real  entity, 
when  it  is  onlv  a  covering,  a  cloak,  that  hides  the  thinkino- 

O "  f% 

spirit,  the  real  ego.  Jt  is  of  earth,  earthy,  and  continually 
changes,  eventually  returning  to  the  elements  from  which  it 
was  created.  The  divine  ego.  the  celestial  word,  which  ani- 
mates the  physical  body  and  gives  man  the  capacity  to  unfold 
his  true  nature,  will  ever  urge  him  forward  to  more  exalted 

O 

spheres  of  labor  and  consciousness.  It  was  created  in  the  im- 
age of  God,  therefore,  like  the  Father,  it  cannot  die,  but  ever 
draws  nearer  and  nearer  to  the  Source  from  which  it  emanated, 
until  finally  the  time  will  arrive  when  the  likeness  of  the  Father 
shall  have  been  unfolded.  Then  the  ego,  having  balanced  all 
sides  of  the  nature,  will  realize  its  true  divine,  immortal  state. 
When  the  elements  and  environments  with  which  the  soul  has 
been  surrounded,  and  which  have  limited  its  freedom  of  action, 
have  been  removed,  the  real  man  will  stand  forth  in  all  the 
glory  of  his  kingly  power,  unrestricted  in  his  actions,  unlim- 
ited in  his  capacity  to  do  and  be  what  he  desires.  Then  he 
will  fully  understand  the  true  significance  and  power  of  the 
Holy  Word  Yah veh,  the  UI  will  be  what  I  will  to  be/'  Then 
he  will  be  an  accepted  son,  who,  although  a  dweller  among 
men,  will  be  perfected  in  the  divine  likeness  of  his  Creator. 
Then,  and  not  until  then,  will  man  fully  realize  that  he  has 
thrown  off  the  mortal  garb  of  earth  and  has  put  on  the  immor- 
tal garment  of  spirit-consciousness,  which  gives  agelasting  life. 
The  student  must  not  infer  from  what  has  been  said  about 
"conscious  sleep"  that  the  consciousness  referred  to  is  the  same 
us  the  mental  state  which  he  has  regarded  as  consciousness;  it 


72  THK    110  A  I)    TO    [M.VJORTA  IJ  T  V. 

is  far  different.  So  different  is  it,  and  so  superior  to  the  state- 
recognized  as  consciousness,  that  it  is  difficult  to  describe. 
When  one  awakens  to  the  external  consciousness,  lie  is  not  at 
all  times  able  to  recall  all  that  he  has  experienced,  but  he  has 
in  the  interior,  a  feeling  of  knowing,  such  as  he  has  never  felt 
before.  There  are  many  reasons  why  the  experiences  of  the 
spirit  life  arc  not  revealed  to,  or  remembered  by,  the  physical 
man.  One  reason  is  that  those  thoughts  that  we  are  able  to 
recall,  or  image  in  the  brain,  have  been  created  from  the  life 
of  the  body.  The  thoughts  in  the  interior  mind  have  been 
created  from  higher  qualities  of  life  than  the  external  man  can 
use  or  know  anything  of:  and  as  they  have  been  created  out- 
side the  sphere  of  the  brain,  it  is  unable  to  image  them,  there- 
fore has  not  the  power  to  call  them  up.  or,  as  it  is  termed,  ^re- 
member" them. 

If  man  persists  in  his  endeavors  to  gain  an  unceasing  con- 
sciousness, there  will  come  a  time  when  the  interior  spiritual 
self  will  have  absolute  control  over  the  external  consciousness. 
When  this  power  has  been  gained  the  ego  can  return  into  the 
objective  consciousness  very  cautiously,  and,  as  it  returns,  it 
can  impress  upon  the  brain  the  image  of  the  thoughts  and  ex- 
periences of  the  subjective  state.  When  the  ego  can  do  this  the 
brain  will  be  able  to  picture  these  thoughts,  and  will  know  in 
the  external  what  has  taken  place  while  the  body  has  been 
sleeping.  As  the  student  develops  soul  consciousness,  he  will 
realize  that  there  are  many  things  that  he  does  not  desire  to 
bring  into  the  objective  mind.  These  thoughts  are,  however, 
stored  in  the  soul  memory,  to  be  brought  into  the  external  when 
need  for  them  arises  in  the  life  of  the  individual.  The  soul  is 
wiser  than  the  external  man,  and  will  therefore  reveal  only 
those  things  that  are  of  use. 

The  dream  state  lies  in  the  borderland  between  the  lower 
and  the  higher  consciousness.  It  is  a  condition  or  state  where 
the  subjective  and  objective  consciousness  overlap.  Dreams 
are  the  reflection,  or  impressions  from  the  astral  realm,  which 


TtIK    UOAU    TO    LM.MOIU  ALiTY.  73 

the  external  mind  receives  as  it  awakens  to  a  consciousness  of 
earthly  surroundings,  There  are  many  kinds  of  dreams — some 
are  useful,  being  the  thoughts  of  holy  men  reflected  upon  the 
mind,  to  serve  as  warnings  of  approaching  danger;  or  they  may 
be  caused  by  astral  conditions  and  be  prophetic  of  coming 
events:  they  may  also  be  reflections  upon  the  mind  by  elemen- 
tals  that  would  strive  to  deceive  and  mislead.  No  dream  can 
be  relied  upon  as  being  useful  or  as  conveying  a  warning  or 
as  being  prophetic,  unless  it  is  very  vivid,  and  its  meaning 
and  purpose  firmly  impressed  upon  the  mind  as  the  indi- 
vidual awakens  to  the  external.  The  Holy  Ones  will  never  re- 
flect thoughts  upon  the  brain,  causing  a  dream,  unless  they  im- 
press the  meaning  of  it  upon  the  mind.  Of  course  the  student 
must  remember  that  the  language  of  the  spirit  world  and  of 
(iod,  is  a  language  of  form.  It  therefore  follows,  that  the  ani- 
mals, objects,  and  things,  as  well  as  the  conditions  experienced 
in  the  dream  state,  can  be  interpreted  only  by  those  who  are 
familial1  with  the  language  of  symbology,  or  the  use  and  pur- 
pose of  form.  The  Bible  is  a  sealed  book  to  all  except  those 
who  have  been  spiritually  illuminated,  because  it  was  written 
by  holy  men  who  were  familiar  with  the  language  of  God,  and 
who  wrote  as  the  Spirit  dictated,  so  that  only  the  wise  would 
understand. 

When  the  student  awakens  in  the  morning  he  should  not 
permit  himself  to  lie  and  idly  dream.  If  he  does  he  will  as- 
suredly fall  asleep,  and  will  often  find  to  his  sorrow  that  the 
adversary  has  robbed  him  of  the  precious  treasure  he  has  striven 
so  laboriously  to  store  up.  The  time  of  greatest  danger  is  in 
the  early  morning  hours,  and  if  the  student  would  only  remem- 
ber that  the  body  of  a  healthy  man  will  not  awaken  naturally 
until  it  has  had  sufficient  sleep,  he  would  have  fewer  regrets, 
and  would  be  brighter  and  more  capable  of  performing  his  du- 
ties. When  you  awaken  you  should  arise  at  once.  Do  not 
allow  the  senses  to  persuade  you  from  doing  this,  but  instantly 
spring  with  a  quick,  positive  motion  upon  the  floor.  I  mine- 


<4  THE    ROAD    TO    IMMORTALITY. 

diately  upon  arising  take  a  cold-water  bath,  regardless  of  the 
cold  or  disinclination  to  do  so.  In  doing  this  you  will  increase 
the  power  of  the  will  and  develop  the  stoic.  If  you  take  con- 
trol of  the  body  with  a  positive  will,  the  senses  will  soon  become 
what  God  intended  them  to  be;  namely,  faithful  servants,  not 
masters.  When  you  have  taken  your  bath,  rub  yourself  with 
a  coarse  towel  until  the  circulation  is  restored  and  the  energies 
brought  into  activity.  (Those  who  have  not  robust  health  should 
modify  the  bath  to  suit  their  physical  condition,  but  should  strive 
by  all  means  at  their  command  to  make  their  bodies  healthy 
and  strong.)  After  rubbing  the  body  perfectly  dry,  clothe 
yourself,  and  then  take  exercise  of  such  a  nature  as  will  har- 
monize body  and  mind;  a  quick,  positive  walk,  with  the  con- 
sciousness active  in  the  body,  will,  as  a  rule,  be  all  the  exercise 
you  will  require.  When  you  have  finished  your  walk,  return 
to  your  room  and  turn  your  attention  to  the  methods  already 
given  for  inspiring  the  will.  After  you  have  finished  your  con- 
centration, if  it  is  still  too  early  for  you  to  begin  the  labors  of 
the  day,  turn  your  attention  to  the  mind,  and  endeavor  to 
put  into  order  the  thoughts  you  have  been  formulating.  If 
you  do  this  you  will  find  that  the  thoughts  gathered  are  of  such 
a  nature  as  will  be  practical  and  useful  to  your  further  at- 
tainment. 

Before  leaving  this  subject,  we  would  call  our  readers'  at- 
tention to  the  fact  that  they  should  sleep  consciously  if  they 
would  reach  the  land  of  promise.  In  Holy  Writ  we  read  that 
before  the  children  of  Israel  could  enter  the  promised  land, 
they  had  to  overthrow  the  kingdom  of  Bashan,  which,  trans- 
lated, means  "sleep."  So  will  you  have  to  overcome  the  king 
of  Bashan,  if  you  would  enter  the  kingdom  which  the  Lord 
our  God  has  prepared  for  all  who  will  conquer  the  old  Levi- 
athan, the  monster  that  has  thrown  the  race  into  a  state  of 
Again  we  read,  "The  kingdom  of  heaven  suft'ereth 
and  the  violent  take  it  by  force.''  St.  Matt.  xi.  12. 
the  violent — the  strong  of  purpose — will  ever  pass  as  an 


THE    ICO  AD    TO    IMMORTALITY.  75 

immortal,  from  earth,  the  home  of  mortals,  to  the  celestial  land 
of  promise.  May  God  give  to  all  seekers  after  truth,  wisdom 
and  understanding,  and  powers  that  will  enable  them  to  let 
their  light  so  shine  that  the  world  will  perceive  and  realize 
that  righteous  sons  of  God  live  and  move  among  men;  and  may 
they  bring  the  truth  to  those  still  in  darkness,  thus  blessing 
the  race  by  their  presence,  and  creating  holier  and  brighter 
conditions  for  the  sons  of  men.  Our  prayer  is,  that  the  truths 
which  we  have  expressed,  may  awaken  in  the  soul  of  the  devout 
Christian  higher  aspirations,  and  a  broader  comprehension  of 
the  fact  which  Jesus  demonstrated: — 
Man  cannot  die  ! 

Tis  true  the  mortal  coil 

To  dust  and  ashes  doth  return 

When  it  has  served  its  use. 

The  true,  the  animating  spark. 

The  star  divine, 

Image  of  Him  who  did 

The  universe  create,  doth  not 

Depend  on  mortal  breath, 

Nor  earthly  loves,  its  span  to  eternize. 

In  proud  preeminence  it  roains 

From  sphere  to  sphere — 

It  is  not  bound;  the  broad  expanse 

Of  space  its  course  doth  trace, 

Unmeasured  by  the  highest  sense 

Of  h'nite  mind. 

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ment, which  is  in  itself  a  complete  occult  library.  The  laws  explained  therein  will, 
if  conscientiously  followed,  lead  the  student  to  the  highest  goal  of  his  desires. 

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PRACTICAL  METHODS  TO  INSUEE  SUCCESS. 

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cjg) ESOTERIC  EDUCATION^ 

Or  the  Unfoldment  and  Life  of  a  Hero. 

Translated  from  the  German  of  J.  Kernning's  «Key  to  the  Realm  of  Spirit. » 

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A  SERIES  OF  SPECIAL  INSTRUCTIONS  DELIVERED  TO  THE  SOCIETY  ESOTERIC. 

BY  H.  E.  BUTLER. 

With  an  introductory  paper  translated  from  the  German  by  Prof.  Wi-eland. 


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THE  SEVEN  CEEATIVE  PEINCIPLES. 

BY   H.  E.   BUTLER. 

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BY     HIRAM     JE.     BUTLEK. 


Illustrated    with  Seven  Plate  Diagrams  and  Tables  of  the  Moon 
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This  science  proves  that  «A11  are  members  of  One  Body»  (I.  Cor.  xn.  12-27); 
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liable,  how  to  avoid  or  how  to  cure  when  already  developed.  Reveals  the  part  of 
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of  health  and  strength,  and  an  important  aid  to  success  and  to  the  attainment  of 
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